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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neighbourhood-planning-referendums-regulations-2012/schedule-6/paragraph-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2031",
  "legislation_title": "The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) Regulations 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/33",
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  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Supply of copy of business voting register to the British Library and restrictions on use",
  "text": "(1) The business registration officer shall supply, free of charge and on publication, one electronic copy of the business voting register to the British Library.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), no person employed by the British Library may—\n(a) supply a copy of the business voting register other than to another such person or to a person using the Library to inspect it under supervision;\n(b) disclose any information contained in it other than in accordance with sub-paragraph (4); or\n(c) make use of any such information.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), no information which is contained in the business voting register may be disclosed otherwise than by allowing a person using the British Library to inspect it under supervision.\n(4) Where a copy of the business voting register is made available for inspection by providing the register on a computer screen or otherwise in data form, the British Library shall ensure that the manner in, and equipment on, which that copy is provided do not permit any person consulting that copy to—\n(a) search it by electronic means by reference to the name of any person;\n(b) copy or transmit any part of that copy by electronic means.\n(5) A person who inspects the business voting register held by the British Library 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.\n(6) A person employed by the British Library is not prohibited from supplying a copy of, or disclosing information contained in a version of the business voting register where—\n(a) more than ten years have expired since that version of the business voting register was first published; and\n(b) the supply or disclosure is for Article 84A GDPR purposes in accordance with the relevant requirement.\n(7) No person who obtains a copy of the business voting register or to whom information contained in it is disclosed under the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (6) may—\n(a) supply a copy of it;\n(b) make use of any such information,\nother than for Article 84A GDPR purposes in accordance with the relevant requirement.",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Neighbourhood Planning (Referendums) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/798), regs. 1, 7, Sch. 1"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 33(6)(7) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 374 (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 33(6)(b) substituted (5.2.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1331), regs. 2(3), 14(b); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(n)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 33(7) substituted (5.2.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1331), regs. 2(3), 14(b); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(n)"
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