PART 6SUPPLY OF REGISTERS ETC.

Sale of edited and full register and specific restrictions

Sale of full register etc to government departments111

1

Subject to regulation 110(2), the registration officer shall supply on request and on payment of a fee calculated in accordance with regulation 109 a copy of a relevant document to a government department.

2

Where a relevant document is supplied under paragraph (1), the relevant restrictions apply except for the purpose of—

a

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

b

the vetting of employees and applicants for employment; and

c

supply and disclosure in accordance with paragraph (3).

3

A government department may supply (whether or not on payment) a copy of the full register to a person (“an authorised person”) so that he may disclose information contained in it in accordance with paragraph (5).

4

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

5

Information contained in the full register (and not contained in the edited register) may not be disclosed by an authorised person except to any person falling within regulations 102 to 106 for use for the purpose for which the person in question could obtain the full register under the regulation concerned.

6

The restrictions in regulations 102 to 106 apply to a person to whom such information is disclosed under paragraph (5) as they apply to a person to whom any of those regulations applies.

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In this regulation “government department” includes a Northern Ireland department.