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This Order is the third of a series of orders(1) establishing schemes for the provision of data to specified electoral registration officers, in order to assist them in meeting the registration objectives set out at section 31(8) of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009, those being—
(a)that persons who are entitled to be registered in an electoral register are registered in it;
(b)that persons who are not entitled to be registered in an electoral register are not registered in it; and
(c)that none of the information relating to a registered person that appears in a register or other record kept by a registration officer is false.
Article 3 provides that specified authorities may provide data to the registration officers under the schemes. Part 1 of the Schedule lists the areas in which schemes have effect and the authorities which may provide data to the registration officer for each area. Part 2 of the Schedule sets out data which each of the authorities may provide, and article 3(b) enables authorities to provide related data, for example the date on which an address was last updated and the source of that update. An authority may only provide data to a registration officer if the data relates to that registration officer’s area.
Article 4 provides that data may only be provided under each scheme before 17th April 2013, for the purpose set out in the 2009 Act and if the authority and the registration officer have agreed in writing requirements for the processing of data under the schemes. The agreement must include the consequences of failing to comply with the requirements agreed.
Article 5 provides that the date by which the Electoral Commission must produce a report on the operation of each scheme under section 36(3) of the 2009 Act is 17th July 2013.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. However, a privacy impact assessment is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.
The first two such orders were the Electoral Registration Data Schemes Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1466) and the Electoral Registration Data Schemes Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1944).
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