The Electoral Registration Pilot Scheme Order 2014

Disclosure of information

4.—(1) The registration officer for an area must disclose to the Lord President or to a person acting on the Lord President’s behalf—

(a) a copy of the registers maintained by that officer which have effect on such date or dates as may have been specified in writing by the Lord President; and

(b) any other information held by that officer which relates to the information contained in those registers and which the Lord President may have specified in writing.

(2) The requirement in paragraph (1) does not apply to those parts of the registers which consist of anonymous entries.

(3) The Secretary of State for Transport may disclose to the Lord President or to a person acting on the Lord President’s behalf, in relation to addresses within each area, the name, address and, where included, date of birth—

(a) of each person in relation to whom that Secretary of State maintains a driving record (as defined in section 97A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988)(1); and

(b) of each person who is shown as the keeper of a vehicle in the record kept by or on behalf of that Secretary of State of vehicles registered under section 21 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(2);

together with any information as to the dates of the entries, or of any amendment to the entries, in those records.

(4) The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions may disclose to the Lord President or to a person acting on the Lord President’s behalf, in relation to addresses within each area—

(a) the name, address and date of birth of each person in relation to whom that Secretary of State maintains a record—

(i) for the purposes of functions relating to social security (including such information kept on behalf of the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland), and

(ii) on behalf of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, relating to tax credit, child tax credit and child benefit;

(b) such other information as may be agreed by that Secretary of State and the Lord President which that Secretary of State holds and which relates to the name, address and date of birth of any person with an entry in a register referred to in paragraph (1)(a); and

(c) where that Secretary of State holds information which—

(i) has been disclosed under article 7(3) of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2013(3), and

(ii) relates to people with an entry in a register referred to in paragraph (1)(a),

that information.

(5) Where information referred to in paragraph (1), (3) or (4) is disclosed, it must be disclosed—

(a) in such form and manner; and

(b) on or by such date or dates before 31st March 2015,

as may have been agreed in writing by the Lord President and, as the case may be, the registration officer, the Secretary of State for Transport or the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

(1)

1988 c.53; section 97A was inserted by section 8 of the Road Safety Act 2006 (c.49).

(2)

1994 c.22; section 21 was amended by paragraph 33 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 1995 (c.4) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1997 (c.16).

(3)

S.I. 2013/3197; there are amendments but none is relevant to this instrument.