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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111112595",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 2001 Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 35 of the 2001 Regulations insert—\n“Disclosure of certain local authorities’ records\n35A. (1) A local authority listed in paragraph (2) may disclose to a registration officer information contained in records held by that authority, for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1983 Act.\n(2) The authorities are—\n(a) the authority by which the registration officer was appointed; and\n(b) where the council by which the registration officer was appointed is a council for a district in a county for which there is a county council, that county council.\n(3) A disclosure under paragraph (1) may be made only in accordance with a written agreement between the authority and the registration officer regulating the processing of the information, including its transfer, storage, destruction and security.\n(4) Where an authority refuses a request by a registration officer to disclose information under paragraph (1) it must give the registration officer written reasons for its refusal.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111112595/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:13:26.456090+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}