Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013

2 After paragraph 1 insert—

“1A (1) Provision authorising or requiring a person to disclose information to another person for the purpose of assisting a registration officer in Great Britain—

(a) to verify information relating to a person who is registered in a register maintained by the officer or who is named in an application for registration in, or alteration of, a register,

(b) to ascertain the names and addresses of people who are not registered but who are entitled to be registered, or

(c) to identify those people who are registered but who are not entitled to be registered.

(2) Provision made under sub-paragraph (1) may authorise or require the person to whom the information is disclosed—

(a) to compare it with other information;

(b) to disclose the results of the comparison to a registration officer for the purpose mentioned in that sub-paragraph.

(3) The provision that may be made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) includes provision—

(a) conferring other functions on a person;

(b) authorising the Secretary of State to make grants to a person on whom functions are conferred;

(c) authorising a person to disclose or otherwise process information only in accordance with an agreement;

(d) authorising or requiring a person to disclose or otherwise process information only in accordance with requirements imposed by the Secretary of State;

(e) regulating the manner in which information is disclosed;

(f) requiring the retention or disposal, or otherwise regulating the processing, of information disclosed.

(4) Provision made under this paragraph has effect despite any statutory or other restriction on the disclosure of information.

(5) In this paragraph “processing” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 1998.”