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The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008
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- Offerynnau Statudol y Deyrnas Unedig
- 2008 No. 1741
- PART 7
- Regulation 117
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Instrument (including any effects on those provisions):
- reg. 20(5A) inserted by 2014 c. 13 s. 15(2)(b)
- reg. 20(6A)(6B) inserted by 2014 c. 13 s. 15(2)(d)
- reg. 22(3)(d) and word inserted by 2014 c. 13 s. 15(3)(b)
- reg. 22(6) inserted by 2014 c. 13 s. 15(3)(f)
- reg. 38C(3)(t) inserted by S.I. 2022/1382 reg. 41(c)
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117.—(1) Any person is entitled to request that the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland make available for inspection a copy of any of the following documents (referred to in this regulation and in regulation 118 as “the documents open to public inspection”)—
(a)the marked register or lists;
(b)such other documents relating to an election as the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland is required by or under any enactment to retain for any period [F1, except the documents specified in paragraph (1A).]
[F2(1A) The specified documents are—
(a)ballot papers,
(b)completed corresponding number lists,
(c)certificates of employment on the day of the election, and
(d)the list compiled in accordance with regulation 84H(1) and any extracts produced from that list.]
(2) A request under paragraph (1) shall be made in writing and shall specify—
(a)which documents are requested;
(b)the purpose for which the information in any document will be used,
(c)where the request is to inspect the marked register or lists, any reason why inspecting the full register or unmarked lists would not be sufficient to achieve that purpose,
(d)who will inspect the documents,
(e)the date on which they wish to inspect the documents, and
(f)whether they would prefer to inspect the documents in a printed or data form.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall make the documents open to public inspection available for inspection under supervision not later than 10 days after the date of receipt of a request that has been duly made.
(4) Where a request has been made to inspect copies of the marked register or lists under paragraph (2) and the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland is not satisfied that the purposes of the requestor cannot be met by inspection of the full register, he shall inform the requestor—
(a)of his decision under this paragraph, and
(b)provide the requestor with information concerning the availability of the published full register for inspection in accordance with regulation 52.
(5) A person who obtains a copy of or information in any document open to public inspection under this regulation may use it only for the permitted purposes specified in regulation 118, and any conditions—
(a)specified in that regulation,
(b)specified in paragraph (7), or
(c)which would apply to the use of the full register under regulation 107 where such a person has obtained a copy of that document under paragraph (8),
shall apply to such use.
(6) Where inspection takes place by providing the records or lists on a computer screen or otherwise in data form, the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall ensure that the manner in, and equipment on which that copy is provided do not permit any person consulting that copy to—
(a)search it by electronic means by reference to the name of any person; or
(b)copy or transmit any part of that copy by electronic, or any other means.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8) a person who inspects a copy of a document open to public inspection, whether a printed copy or in data form, may not—
(a)make copies of any part of it, or
(b)record any particulars in it,
except that a person who inspects a copy of the marked register or lists may make hand-written notes.
(8) The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall on request, supply free of charge copies of any documents open to public inspection, to a person who has inspected those documents and who is entitled to be supplied with a copy of the marked register or lists by virtue of being a person to whom regulation 107 applies.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 117(1)(b) inserted (26.3.2024) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling etc.) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/319), regs. 1(2), 9(a) (with reg. 1(3))
F2Reg. 117(1A) inserted (26.3.2024) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling etc.) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/319), regs. 1(2), 9(b) (with reg. 1(3))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Reg. 117 applied (with modifications) (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 106
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