Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Amendment of provision about copies

6.—(1) Regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations (copies of documents) shall become paragraph (1) of regulation 7.

(2) After that paragraph insert–

“(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the full register.

(3) A person inspecting the full register may not–

(a) make copies of any part of it, or

(b) record any particulars included in it,

otherwise than by means of hand-written notes.

(4) A person who inspects the full register and makes a copy of it or records any particulars included in it otherwise than by means of hand-written notes shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(5) In this regulation “full register” includes–

(a) any part of it, and

(b) any notice published under section 13A(2) or 13B(3) of the 1983 Act(1) altering the register.”.

(1)

Sections 13A and 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act.