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1(1)Provisions prescribing the arrangements to be made for the carrying out of his registration duties by a registration officer for part of a constituency, where the constituency is not coterminous with or wholly situated in a district [F1, Welsh county or county borough] or London borough.
(2)Provisions authorising a registration officer to require persons to give information required for the purpose of his registration duties [F2or to make declarations of any prescribed description as to matters relevant to their entitlement to be registered.]
[F3(3)Provisions authorising a registration officer, where—
(a)he has so required any person registered in one of his registers to give him information, or to make any declaration, for the purpose of enabling him to determine whether the person is entitled to be so registered, and
(b)the person has not within the prescribed period complied with that requirement in a manner which the officer considers satisfactory (or at all),
to remove the person’s name from the register.
(4)Provisions authorising a registration officer to inspect, for the purpose of his registration duties, records kept (in whatever form) by—
(a)any local or public authority of any prescribed description, or
(b)any person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any function of, any such authority,
and to make copies of information contained in such records.
[F4[F5(4A)Provision authorising or requiring any such authority or person, for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (4B), to provide the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, at such times or in such circumstances as may be prescribed, with information contained in such records.
(4B)The purpose is assisting the Chief Electoral Officer to meet the relevant registration objectives, and, in particular, assisting him—
(a)to ascertain to what extent the relevant registration objectives are being met;
(b)to determine what steps should be taken for meeting those objectives.]]
(5)Provisions made under sub-paragraph (4) [F6or (4A)] above shall have effect despite any statutory or other restriction on the disclosure of information.]
[F7(6)But provision made under sub-paragraph (4A) may not permit information obtained under those provisions to be disclosed to a third party except—
(a)for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (4B);
(b)for the purposes of any criminal or civil proceedings.
(7)In sub-paragraph (4B) “the relevant registration objectives” has the meaning given by section 10ZB.
(8)In sub-paragraph (6) “third party” means a person other than a person to whom the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland may delegate his functions.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 68(18) (with ss. 54(4)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(2) inserted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 24(1)(2); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2)(with 2(4))
F3Sch. 2 para. 1(3)-(5) inserted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 24(1)(3); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))
F4Sch. 2 para. 1(4A)(4B) inserted (N.I.) (1.7.2002) by Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 13), s. 6(2); S.I. 2002/1648, art. 2
F5Sch. 2 para. 1(4A)(4B) substituted (16.10.2006) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 7(2), 31; S.I. 2006/2688, art. 2(2)(a)
F6Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(5) inserted (N.I.) (1.7.2002) by Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 13), s. 6(3); S.I. 2002/1648, art. 2
F7Sch. 2 para. 1(6)-(8) inserted (16.10.2006) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 33), ss. 7(3), 31; S.I. 2006/2688, art. 2(2)(a)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 2 para. 1(2)-(5) extended (N.I.) (with modifications) by Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 3, SIF 42), ss. 2, 13(6), Sch. 1 Pt. I (as amended 29.1.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8, Sch. 3 para. 3(6); S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4)))
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