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

[F1 Restrictions on supply of full register and disclosure of information from it by the registration officer and his staff E+W

94.— (1) This regulation applies to—

(a) the registration officer;

(b) any deputy registration officer; and

(c) any person appointed to assist any such officer or who in the course of his employment is assigned to assist any such officer in his registration duties.

(2) Where the registration officer is also the returning officer or acting returning officer at any election or the counting officer at a referendum held by or under an Act of Parliament (and thereby has access to the full register without being supplied with a copy of it), this regulation also applies to—

(a) the registration officer acting in that other capacity;

(b) any deputy returning officer, deputy acting returning officer or deputy counting officer; and

(c) any person appointed to assist any person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or who in the course of his employment is assigned to assist any such officer in his duties in respect of the election or referendum in question.

(3) No person to whom this regulation applies may—

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

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

(c) make use of any such information,

otherwise than in accordance with an enactment, including these Regulations.

(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) above applies to the supply or disclosure by a person to whom this regulation applies to another such person in connection with his registration duties or for the purposes of an election or referendum.

[F2 (5) In this regulation, references to a registration officer’s registration duties include references to the officer’s functions under sections 13BD and 13BE of the 1983 Act.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 6 inserted (16.10.2002) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1871), regs. 2(2), 15 (with reg. 2(3))

F2 Reg. 94(5) inserted (16.1.2023) by The Voter Identification Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1382), regs. 1(3), 38(9)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Reg. 94 applied (with modifications) (1.2.2007) by The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/236), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 14

C2 Reg. 94 modified (26.2.2016) by The European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/219), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 52