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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-56",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Provision of registration information to public bodies and office-holders",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may provide any information contained in a register mentioned in subsection (2) to any public body or office-holder (in Scotland, in any other part of the United Kingdom or in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom).\n(2) Those registers are—\n(a) a register of births, still-births, deaths or marriages transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act or any enactment repealed by that Act;\n(b) a Register of Corrections Etc. or a civil partnership register transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act;\n(c) the Register of Divorces;\n(d) the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership.\n(3) The Registrar General may charge for the provision of information under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:08.752556+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."
}