# The Voter Identification Regulations 2022, Regulation 8: Registration officer’s right to inspect certain records


(1) A registration officer is authorised to inspect, for the purpose of determining identity document applications, records kept (in whatever form) by—
(a) an authority listed in paragraph (2), or
(b) any person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any function of, any such authority.
(2) Those authorities are—
(a) the council by which the registration officer was appointed,
(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, and
(c) any superintendent registrar of births, deaths and marriages, registrar of births and deaths or registrar of marriages.
(3) A registration officer is authorised to make copies of information contained in such records.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348240504/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-voter-identification-regulations-2022/regulation-8
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