92.—(1) In this Part “register” includes—
(a)any part of it; and
(b)except in regulation 93 and in the context of the supply by the registration officer of the register and notices, any notice altering the register which is published under section 13A(2) or 13BA(3),(6) or (9) of the 1983 Act(1).
(2) In this Part—
“enactment” has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the 2000 Act; and
“processor” has the meaning set out in regulation 113(1).
(3) In this Part, any reference to an employee of a person who has access to a copy of the full register includes—
(a)any person working or providing services for the person who has such access; and
(b)any person employed by or on behalf of, or working for, the person referred to in sub-paragraph (a).
(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 contained in it has been disclosed under the equivalent regulation in the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001(2), as amended, or the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001(3), as amended.
(5) Subject to any direction of the Secretary of State under section 52(1) of the 1983 Act(4), any duty on the 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.
93.—(1) At the time when the registration officer publishes a version of the register under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act (5) (“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 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(6) or in accordance with regulation 27 by or on behalf of that elector for his name and address to be excluded from the edited register.
[F1(2A) 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 the same as the full register and shall include any marks or dates which are required to be recorded against the names of any electors.
(4) Notwithstanding the omission of names and addresses in accordance with paragraph (2), regulation 50 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 published until the coming into force of the next revised version of it.
Textual Amendments
1983 c.2; sections 13A and 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act and section 13BA was inserted by section 6 of the Miscellaneous Provisions Act (c.33).
S.I. 2001/341; amended by S.I.2001/1700, S.I.2002/1871, S.I. 2006/752 and S.I.2006/2910.
S.I. 2001/497; amended by S.I.2001/1749, S.I.2002/1872, S.I.2003/3075, S.I.2004/1771, S.I.2004/1960, S.I.2006/834, S.I.2006/1836, S.I.2006/3406 and S.I.2007/925.
The exercise of the powers in section 52(1) is made subject to section 8(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) and section 52(1A), as inserted by Schedule 21 to that Act, is relevant to those powers. Section 52 was amended by Schedule 4 to the 1985 Act (c.50).
1983 c2; section 13 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act (c2.) and subsection (1) was substituted by section 5 of the Miscellaneous Provisions Act (c33).
Section 10(4) has been amended by Schedule 4 to the Miscellaneous Provisions Act.