The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

Supply of full register etc to registered political parties etc and restrictions on use N.I.

105.—(1) This regulation applies to—

(a) a registered political party other than a minor party, within the meaning of section 160(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;

(b) a recognised third party within the meaning of section 85(5) of that Act, other than a registered political party; and

(c) a permitted participant within the meaning of section 105(1) of that Act, other than a registered political party.

(2) In the case of the parties and participants to whom this regulation applies, the relevant part of the documents listed in regulation 101(1) is the whole of them.

(3) No person employed by, or assisting (whether or not for reward) a party or participant to which this regulation applies and to which a copy of the register has been supplied may—

(a) supply a copy of the full register to any person;

(b) disclose any information contained in it (and not contained in the edited register); or

(c) make use of any such information,

otherwise than for the purposes set out in paragraph (4).

(4) Those purposes are—

(a) in the case of a party falling within paragraph (1)(a) or (b)—

(i) electoral purposes; and

(ii) the purpose of complying with the controls on donations under Part 4 of or, as the case may be, Schedule 11 to, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; and

(iii) the purpose of complying with the controls on loans and regulated transactions under Part 4A of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; and

(b) in the case of a permitted participant within the meaning of section 105(1) of that Act—

(i) purposes in connection with the campaign in respect of the referendum identified in the declaration made by the participant under section 106 of that Act; and

(ii) the purposes of complying with the controls on donations in Schedule 15 to that Act.

(5) The restrictions in paragraph (3) apply to a person to whom any of the full register has been supplied or information disclosed under that paragraph as they apply to persons referred to in that paragraph.