F1PART VISUPPLY OF REGISTER ETC

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Sale of edited anhd full registers and specified restrictions

Sale of full register to government departments F2and other bodies113

1

Subject to regulation 112(2) above, the registration officer shall supply on request and on payment of a fee calculated in accordance with regulation 111 above a copy of a relevant document F3to—

a

a government department;

b

the Environment Agency;

c

the Financial Services Authority; or

d

a body not falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) which carries out the vetting of any person for the purpose of safeguarding national security,

other than F6a department to which regulation 108A applies or a force or organisation to which regulation 109(1) applies.

F42

For the purposes of regulation 112(3), the relevant restrictions apply—

a

in the case of a body falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph (1), except for the purpose of—

i

the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the criminal law (whether in England and Wales or elsewhere);

ii

the vetting of employees and applicants for employment where such vetting is required pursuant to any enactment;

iii

the vetting of any person where such vetting is for the purpose of safeguarding national security; or

iv

supply and disclosure in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (6); and

b

in the case of a body falling within sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1), except for the purpose of the vetting of any person where such vetting is for the purpose of safeguarding national security.

3

A government departmentF5, other than one mentioned in F7regulation 108A may supply (whether or not on payment) a copy of the full register to a person (“an authorised person”), who may only disclose information contained in it in accordance with paragraph (5) below.

4

In this regulation any reference to an authorised person includes a reference to his employees.

5

Information contained in the full register may not be disclosed by an authorised person except to any person falling within regulations 103 to 108 above; and for use for the purposes for which such a person could obtain a register under the regulation concerned.

6

The restrictions in regulations 103 to 108 respectively apply to a person to whom information contained in the full register is disclosed under paragraph (5) as it applies to a person to whom a copy of the register is applied under those regulations.