The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001

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[F1Interpretation and application of Part VI etcE+W

92.—(1) In this Part “register” includes—

(a)any part of the register referred to, and

(b)(except in [F2regulations 93 and 93A] and in the context of the supply by the registration officer of the register and notices altering the register), any notice altering the register which is published under section 13A(2) [F3,13AB(2)] or 13B(3) [F4, (3B) or (3D)] of the 1983 Act.

(2) In this Part—

(a)“enactment” has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the 2000 Act, F5...

(b)“processor” means any person who provides a service which consists of putting information into data form or processing information in data form and any reference to a processor includes a reference to his employees.

[F6(ba)“relevant requirement” means the requirement under Article 89 of [F7the UK GDPR], read with section 19 of the Data Protection Act 2018, that personal data processed for Article 89 GDPR purposes must be subject to appropriate safeguards.]

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(3) In this Part, any reference to an employee of any person who has access to a copy of the full register shall be deemed to include any person working or providing services for the purposes of that person or employed by or on behalf of, or working for, any person who is so working or who is supplying such a service.

(4) Where any person has been supplied with a copy of a register of electors pursuant to the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001, or the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland Regulations 2001, that person shall be under the same duties and obligations and subject to the same penalties in relation to the copy supplied as he would have been under had that copy been supplied to him pursuant to these Regulations (and, accordingly, where that copy is a copy of a full register he shall be under the same duties, obligations and penalties that he would have been under had he been supplied with a copy of a full register pursuant to these Regulations).

(5) Subject to any direction of the Secretary of State under section 52(1) of the 1983 Act, any duty on a registration officer to supply data under this Part imposes only a duty to supply data in the form in which he holds it.

(6) The registration officer shall not supply data which includes information not included in the printed version of the full register otherwise than under a provision in an enactment.

(7) Any person who has obtained [F9or is entitled to obtain] a copy of the full register under regulations [F1097(5), 97A(7),] 98, 100, 101, 103, 105, 106, 109, [F11109A(9),] 113 or 114 may—

(a)supply a copy of the full register to a processor for the purpose of processing the information contained in the register,

(b)procure that a processor processes and provides to them any copy of the register which the processor has obtained under these Regulations,

for use in respect of the purposes for which that person is entitled to obtain such copy or information (as the case may be).

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(9) The processor may not disclose the full register or the information contained in it except to the person who supplied it to the processor or an employee of that person or a person who is entitled to obtain a copy of the full register under these Regulations or any employee of such a person.

(10) The restrictions contained in regulations 94(3), 95(2), [F1397(6), 97A(8),] 98(9), 100(3), 101(6), 103(3), 104(3), 105(4), 106(3), [F14107(3)], 107(8), 108(5) [F15, 109(3) and 109A(10)] below apply to a person to whom the full register, or any information contained in it (that is not contained in the edited register) has been supplied or disclosed under those paragraphs as they apply to the person to whom those regulations apply.]