The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001

[F1 Sale of full register to government departments [F2 and other bodies] E+W

113.— (1) Subject to regulation 112(2) above, the registration officer shall supply on request and on payment of a fee calculated in accordance with regulation 111 above a copy of a relevant document [F3 to—

(a) a government department;

(b) the Environment Agency;

(c) the Financial Services Authority; or

(d) a body not falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) which carries out the vetting of any person for the purpose of safeguarding national security,

other than a force or organisation to which regulation 109(1) applies.]

[F4 (2) For the purposes of regulation 112(3), the relevant restrictions apply—

(a) in the case of a body falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph (1), except for the purpose of—

(i) the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the criminal law (whether in England and Wales or elsewhere);

(ii) the vetting of employees and applicants for employment where such vetting is required pursuant to any enactment;

(iii) the vetting of any person where such vetting is for the purpose of safeguarding national security; or

(iv) supply and disclosure in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (6); and

(b) in the case of a body falling within sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1), except for the purpose of the vetting of any person where such vetting is for the purpose of safeguarding national security.]

(3) A government department [F5 , other than one mentioned in regulation 109(1)(g) to (i),] may supply (whether or not on payment) a copy of the full register to a person (“an authorised person”), who may only disclose information contained in it in accordance with paragraph (5) below.

(4) In this regulation any reference to an authorised person includes a reference to his employees.

(5) Information contained in the full register may not be disclosed by an authorised person except to any person falling within regulations 103 to 108 above; and for use for the purposes for which such a person could obtain a register under the regulation concerned.

(6) The restrictions in regulations 103 to 108 respectively apply to a person to whom information contained in the full register is disclosed under paragraph (5) as it applies to a person to whom a copy of the register is applied under those regulations.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 6 inserted (16.10.2002) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1871), regs. 2(2), 15 (with reg. 2(3))

F2 Words in reg. 113 heading inserted (23.3.2006) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/752), regs. 1(1), 23(2)

F3 Words in reg. 113(1) substituted (23.3.2006) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/752), regs. 1(1), 23(3)

F4 Reg. 113(2) substituted (23.3.2006) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/752), regs. 1(1), 23(4)

F5 Words in reg. 113(3) inserted (23.3.2006) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/752), regs. 1(1), 23(5)