{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008/regulation-98",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110814674",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/98",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Supply of free copy of full register etc to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and restrictions on use",
  "text": "(1) The registration officer shall supply, free of charge on publication, one copy of—\n(a) any revised version of the register published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act;\n(b) any notice setting out an alteration to the register published under section 13A(2) or 13BA(3),(6) or (9) of that Act; and\n(c) any list of overseas electors,\nto the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (in this regulation referred to as “the Agency”).\n(2) In paragraph (1) the duty to supply is a duty to supply in data form unless, prior to publication, the Agency has requested in writing a printed copy instead.\n(3) No person employed by the Agency may—\n(a) supply a copy of the full register other than to another such person;\n(b) disclose any information contained in it (and not contained in the edited register) otherwise than in accordance with paragraph (4); or\n(c) process or make use of any such information other than for statistical purposes.\n(4) Such information may not be disclosed otherwise than—\n(a) by allowing a person using the premises of the Agency to inspect it under supervision; and\n(b) by publishing information about electors which does not include the name or address of any elector.\n(5) A person who inspects the full register may not—\n(a) make copies of any part of it; or\n(b) record any particulars included in it,\notherwise than by means of hand-written notes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814674/regulation/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:26.596223+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."
}