The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

Supply of free copy of full register etc to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and restrictions on use N.I.

98.—(1) The registration officer shall supply, free of charge on publication, one copy of—

(a) any revised version of the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act;

(b) any notice setting out an alteration to the register published under section 13A(2) or 13BA(3),(6) or (9) of that Act; and

(c) any list of overseas electors,

to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (in this regulation referred to as “the Agency”).

(2) In paragraph (1) the duty to supply is a duty to supply in data form unless, prior to publication, the Agency has requested in writing a printed copy instead.

(3) No person employed by the Agency may—

(a) supply a copy of the full register other than to another such person;

(b) disclose any information contained in it (and not contained in the edited register) otherwise than in accordance with paragraph (4); or

(c) process or make use of any such information other than for statistical purposes.

(4) Such information may not be disclosed otherwise than—

(a) by allowing a person using the premises of the Agency to inspect it under supervision; and

(b) by publishing information about electors which does not include the name or address of any elector.

(5) A person who inspects the full register may not—

(a) make copies of any part of it; or

(b) record any particulars included in it,

otherwise than by means of hand-written notes.