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3.—(1) Any person is entitled to request that the registration officer make available for inspection a copy of any of the following documents (“the documents open to public inspection”)—
(a)the marked register or lists;
(b)such other documents relating to a petition as the registration officer is required by or under any enactment to retain for any period except—
(i)signing sheets,
(ii)completed corresponding number lists,
(iii)certificates as to employment during the signing period,
(iv)lists required to be completed under regulation 110(4) (lists of rejected postal signing sheets).
(2) A request under subparagraph (1) must be made in writing and must specify—
(a)which documents are requested;
(b)the purposes for which the information in any document will be used;
(c)where the request is to inspect the marked register or lists, details relating to any suspected fraud which the person has reason to believe may have taken place in respect of a petition;
(d)who will inspect the documents;
(e)the date on which they wish to inspect the documents; and
(f)whether they would prefer to inspect the documents in printed or data form.
(3) Subject to subparagraph (4), the registration officer must make the documents open to public inspection available for inspection under supervision not later than 10 working days after the date of receipt of a request that has been duly made.
(4) Where a request has been made to inspect copies of the marked register or lists under subparagraph (2), the registration officer is only required to make those documents available for inspection if that officer is satisfied that fraud may have taken place in respect of the petition to which the documents relate.
(5) A person who obtains a copy of or information in any document open to public inspection under this paragraph may use it only for the permitted purposes specified in paragraph 5(3) and any conditions specified in that paragraph are to apply.
(6) Where inspection takes place by providing the records or lists on a computer screen or otherwise in data form, the registration officer must ensure that the manner in which, and equipment on which, that copy is provided do not permit any person consulting that copy to—
(a)search it by electronic means by reference to the name of any person; or
(b)copy or transmit any part of that copy by electronic or any other means.
(7) Subject to subparagraph (8), a person who inspects a copy of a document open to public inspection, whether a printed copy or in data form, may not—
(a)make copies of any part of it, or
(b)record any particulars in it,
except that a person who inspects a copy of the marked register or lists may make hand-written notes.
(8) The registration officer must, on request, supply free of charge copies of any documents open to public inspection—
(a)to the Security Service, the Government Communications Headquarters, or the Secret Intelligence Service; or
(b)to a person who has inspected those documents and who is entitled to be supplied with a copy of the marked register or lists by virtue of being a person to whom paragraph 2(2)(a) to (d) applies.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 3 in force at 4.3.2016, see reg. 1
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