F1PART 6SUPPLY OF REGISTER ETC
Interpretation and edited register
Interpretation of Part VI etc92
1
In this Part “register” includes–
a
any part of it, and
2
In this Part–
a
“enactment” has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the 2000 Act; F2...
b
“processor” has the meaning set out in regulation 114 below.
F3c
“relevant conditions” has the same meaning as in section 33(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998, and
d
“research purposes” shall be construed in accordance with section 33(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998.
3
In this Part, any reference to an employee of any person who has access to a copy of the full register shall be deemed to include any person working or providing services for the purposes of that person or employed by or on behalf of, or working for, any person who is so working or who is supplying such a service.
4
Any restriction on the use of a copy of the full register or information contained in it which is imposed by any regulation in this Part shall apply to a person to whom a copy of the full register has been supplied or information in it has been disclosed under the equivalent regulation in the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 200117, or the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 200118.
5
Subject to any direction of the Secretary of State under section 52(1) of the 1983 Act19, any duty on a registration officer to supply data under this Part imposes only a duty to supply data in the form in which he holds it.
6
The registration officer shall not supply data which includes information not included in the printed version of the full register otherwise than under a provision in an enactment.
Edited version of register93
1
At the time when the registration officer publishes a version of the register under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act20, (“the full register”), he shall publish a version of the register under this regulation (“the edited register”).
2
The edited register shall omit the names and addresses of any elector whose details are included in the full register if a request has been duly made in the form referred to in section 10(4) of the 1983 Act or in accordance with regulation 26 above21 by or on behalf of that elector for his name and address to be excluded from the edited register.
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The edited register shall omit all anonymous entries in the register, and any information relating to them.
3
In other respects the edited register shall be identical to the full register (and, accordingly, shall include any mark or date which is required to be recorded against the name of any elector).
4
Notwithstanding the omission of names and addresses in accordance with paragraph (2) above, regulation 41 above shall apply to the edited register as it applies to the full register.
5
Unless the contrary intention appears, any reference in these Regulations to the register is to the full register.
6
The manner in which each revised version of the edited register is to be published under this regulation is–
a
by the registration officer making a copy of it available for inspection at his office, and
b
by such other means (if any) as he thinks appropriate.
7
Each revised version of the edited register shall be kept published until the coming into force of the next revised version of it.
Pt. 6 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 2(3) of the amending S.I.) by Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1872), regs. 2(2), 14