The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

[F1 Interpretation and general N.I.

74.— (1) In this Part—

“Chief Electoral Officer” means the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland;

“edited register” has the same meaning as in regulation 93 of the 2008 Regulations;

“enactment” has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the Representation of the People Act 2000;

“the full register” means the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act;

“marked register and lists” means any part of the marked copies of the full register, marked copy notices under section 13BA(9) of the 1983 Act, list of proxies, absent voters list and proxy postal voters list retained by the Chief Electoral Officer under rule 67;

“processor” means any person who provides a service which consists of putting information in data form or processing information in data form and any reference to a processor includes a reference to his employees;

“relevant conditions” has the same meaning as in section 33(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998;

“research purposes” shall be construed in accordance with section 33(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998; and

“2008 Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008.

(2) 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 a 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.

(3) The processor may not disclose the full register or the information contained in it except to the person who supplied it to the processor or an employee of that person or a person who is entitled to obtain a copy of the full register under the 2008 Regulations or any employee of such a person.

(4) In this Part, any reference to a day that is disregarded shall be interpreted, or any period of days shall be calculated, in accordance with rule 2(1) except the reference in that rule to a “bank holiday” shall mean a bank holiday within the meaning of paragraph (2)(b) of that rule.

(5) Any duty on the Chief Electoral Officer to supply records or lists or make them available for inspection under this Part imposes only a duty to provide that information in the form in which he holds it.

(6) The Chief Electoral Officer may unseal the packets of documents he is required to keep under rule 67 as necessary to comply with his duties under this Part.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (27.3.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/813), regs. 1(2), 38, Sch. 1