The National Assembly for Wales Referendum (Assembly Act Provisions) (Referendum Question, Date of Referendum Etc.) Order 2010

Supply of free copy of register, notices and lists for referendum purposes

20.—(1) This paragraph applies where a registration officer is not the counting officer for the voting area that is the same as or falls wholly or partly within the registration officer’s area; and references in this paragraph to “relevant counting officer” mean the counting officer for that voting area.

(2) By no later than the publication of the notice of the referendum, the registration officer must supply the relevant counting officer with as many printed copies of the following as the relevant counting officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the referendum—

(a) the latest version of the register; and

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

(3) If at any time after a registration officer has complied with paragraph (2)—

(a) a revised version of the register is published; or

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

the registration officer must supply the relevant counting officer with as many printed copies of the register or notice as the relevant counting officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the referendum.

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

(5) A register or notice supplied under this paragraph must be supplied free of charge.

(6) No person to whom a copy of the register has been supplied under this paragraph 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,

other than for the purposes of the referendum.

(7) In this paragraph—

(a) the full register and edited register have the same meaning as in regulation 93 of the 2001 Regulations; and

(b) “data form” means information which is in a form which is capable of being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose.