The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016

Supply of free copy of full register for electoral purposes and restrictions on use: England and Wales U.K.

55.  For the purposes of the referendum the following is treated as substituted for regulation 98 of the England and Wales Regulations(1)—

“Supply of free copy of full register for electoral purposes and restrictions on use

98.— (1) By no later than the publication of the notice of the referendum, the registration officer shall supply each relevant counting officer with as many printed copies of the following as he may reasonably require for the purposes of the referendum—

(a) the latest version of the relevant registers,

(b) any notice, published under section 13A(2), 13AB(2) or 13B(3), (3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act, setting out an alteration to the latest version of a relevant register, and

(c) the latest version of the list of overseas electors.

(2) In this regulation—

“relevant counting officer” in relation to a registration officer—

(a)

means a counting officer for a voting area that is the same as, or falls wholly or partly within, the registration officer’s registration area, but

(b)

does not include a counting officer who is the same individual as the registration officer;

“relevant register” means—

(a)

the register of parliamentary electors, published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act,

(b)

the register of local government electors, published under section 13(1) or (3) of that Act, or

(c)

the register of peers, maintained under section 3 of the 1985 Act, and published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act (as applied by regulation 13(4) of, and Schedule 4 to, these regulations).

(3) If at any time after a registration officer has complied with paragraph (1)—

(a) a revised version of a relevant register is published,

(b) a notice is published, under section 13A(2), 13AB(2) or 13B(3), (3B) or (3D) of the 1983 Act, setting out an alteration to the latest version of a relevant register, or

(c) a revised version of the list of overseas electors is published,

the registration officer shall supply the counting officer with as many printed copies of the register, notice or list as he may reasonably require for the purposes of the referendum.

(4) Where a registration officer is under a duty to supply a counting officer with printed copies of a register, notice or list under this regulation, he must also supply a copy of the register, notice or list in data form.

(5) A register notice or list supplied under this regulation shall be supplied free of charge.

(6) No person to whom a copy of any 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 the referendum.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 55 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1

(1)

Regulation 98 was inserted by regulation 15 of S.I. 2002/1871. There are amendments that are not relevant to these Regulations.