This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Representation of the People (Data Matching) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 No. 63
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451) (“the 2019 Regulations”).
The 2019 Regulations make provision in relation to the reformed annual canvass in respect of a parliamentary register of electors and local government register of electors in England. Regulations 20 and 21 of the 2019 Regulations make provision for a data match that will allow registration officers to match the names and addresses of those registered in a register of parliamentary electors in Great Britain or a register of local government electors in England, against other data sources.
Regulation 3 of these Regulations amends regulation 20 of the 2019 Regulations to extend the data matching confirmation to a register of local government electors in Scotland.
The Scottish Government has prepared and is publishing on its website a Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment and an Equality Impact Assessment.
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