Supply of free copy of full register to deputy returning officer at local elections and restrictions on useN.I.
97.—(1) Not later than five days before the last date for the publication of the notice of election at a local election, the registration officer shall supply free of charge to the deputy returning officer (within the meaning of article 9(2) of the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1)) at that election as many printed copies of—
(a)the latest revised version of the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act, as the case may be; and
(b)any notice setting out an alteration to that version of the register published under section 13A(2) or 13BA(3),(6) or (9) of that Act,
as the deputy returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of the election, together with one copy in data form.
(2) No person to whom a copy of the register has been supplied under this regulation may—
(a)supply a copy of the full register;
(b)disclose any information contained in it (and not contained in the edited register); or
(c)make use of any such information,
other than for the purposes of the election.
(3) The restrictions in paragraph (2) apply to a person to whom a copy of the full register has been supplied in accordance with this regulation or to whom such information has been so disclosed as it applies to the person to whom a copy of the register has been so supplied.