[F1SCHEDULE 6E+WREGISTERING TO VOTE IN A BUSINESS REFERENDUM

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PART 8E+WPublication and supply of register and lists

InterpretationE+W

29.—(1)  In this Part—

[F2“Article 89 GDPR purposes” means the purposes mentioned in Article 89(1) of [F3the UK GDPR] (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics);]

“enactment” has the same meaning as in section 17(2) of the Representation of the People Act 2000;

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“processor” means any person who provides a service which consists of putting information into data form or processing information in data form and any reference to a processor includes a reference to the employees of that processor;

[F5“relevant requirement” means the requirement under Article 89 of [F6the UK GDPR], read with section 19 of the Data Protection Act 2018, that personal data processed for Article 89 GDPR purposes must be subject to appropriate safeguards;]

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[F8“the UK GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018;]

(2) In this Part, any reference to an employee of any person who has access to a copy of the business voting register shall be deemed to include any person working or providing services for the purposes of that person or employed by or on behalf of, or working for, any person who is so working or who is supplying such a service.

(3) Subject to any direction of the Secretary of State under section 52(1) of the 1983 Act, any duty on a business registration officer to supply data under this Part imposes only a duty to supply data in the form in which that officer holds it.

(4) The business registration officer shall not supply data which includes information not included in the published version of the business voting register otherwise than under a provision in an enactment.

(5) Any person who has obtained, or is entitled to obtain, a copy of the business voting register under paragraphs 31, 33, 36 or 37 may—

(a)supply a copy of the business voting register to a processor for the purpose of processing the information contained in the register;

(b)procure that a processor processes and provides to them any copy of the register which the processor has obtained under this Schedule

for use in respect of the purposes for which that person is entitled to obtain such copy or information (as the case may be).

(6) The processor may not disclose the business voting register or the information contained in it except to the person who supplied it to the processor or an employee of that person or a person who is entitled to obtain a copy of the business voting register under this Schedule or any employee of such a person.

(7) The restrictions contained in paragraphs 31(3), 33(6), 34(6), 35(2), 36(2) or 39(9) apply to a person to whom the business voting register, or any information contained in it has been supplied or disclosed under those paragraphs as they apply to the person to whom those paragraphs apply.]

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