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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-disclosure-of-electoral-registers-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/760",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Registration (Disclosure of Electoral Registers) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-registration-disclosure-of-electoral-registers-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Processing of information disclosed",
  "text": "(1) Information disclosed under regulation 2(1), (4), (6) or (7) may not be disclosed to any other person except—\n(a) for a purpose mentioned in paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Act; or\n(b) for the purpose of any civil or criminal proceedings.\n(2) A person who discloses information in breach of paragraph (1) is guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) substituted (E.W.) (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 27.3.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/760/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:59:13.518490+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."
}