Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001

[F1 Supply of free copy of full register for electoral purposes and restrictions on use S

97.— (1) Each registration officer shall supply, free of charge and on publication, one copy of–

(a) any revised version of the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act, and

(b) any notice setting out an alteration to the register published under section 13A(2) or 13B(3) [F2 , (3B) or (3D)] of that Act,

to the returning officer for the council or, as the case may be, each council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994(1) for his registration area.

(2) In paragraph (1) above the duty to supply one copy of the register is a duty to supply it in data form unless, prior to publication, the returning officer to whom it is to be supplied has requested in writing a printed copy instead.

(3) As soon as practicable after the relevant event, the registration officer shall supply free of charge to a returning officer for any constituency wholly or partly in his registration area as many printed copies of–

(a) the latest revised version of the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act, as the case may be;

(b) any notice setting out an alteration to that version of the register published under section 13A(2) or 13B(3) [F3 , (3B) or (3D)] of that Act, and

(c) the most recent list of overseas electors,

as the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of a parliamentary election.

(4) In paragraph (3) above–

(a) “relevant event” means–

(i) the announcement of Her Majesty’s intention to dissolve Parliament, or

(ii) the occurrence of a vacancy in the relevant constituency; and

(b) the duty to supply as many printed copies of the register, notices and list of overseas electors as the returning officer may reasonably require includes a duty to supply one copy of each in data form.

(5) As soon as practicable after the relevant date, a registration officer shall supply free of charge to the returning officer for the council or, as the case may be, each council, constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 for his registration area as many printed copies of the documents referred to in paragraph (3)(a), (b) and (c) above as the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of a European Parliamentary election.

(6) In paragraph (5) above–

(a) “relevant date” means–

(i) in the case of a general election of MEPs the date which is two months before the day appointed by order of the Secretary of State for the poll, or

(ii) where the Secretary of State has made an order appointing a day for the poll at a by-election, the date on which that order was made; and

(b) the duty to supply as many printed copies of the register, notices and list of overseas electors as the returning officer may reasonably require includes a duty to supply one of each in data form.

(7) No person to whom a copy of the register has been supplied under this regulation may–

(a) supply a copy of the full register;

(b) disclose any information contained in it (that is not contained in the edited register), or

(c) make use of any such information,

except for the purposes of an election.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 6 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 2(3) of the amending S.I.) by Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1872), regs. 2(2), 14

F2 Words in reg. 97(1)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 27

F3 Words in reg. 97(3)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/925), regs. 1(1), 27

(1)

Section 10A was inserted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act.