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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1917",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Restriction on use of absent voter records or lists or the information contained in them",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to any person who has obtained access to the information covered by paragraph 20(1) by any means.\n(2) No person to whom this paragraph applies may—\n(a) supply a copy of the information or any part of that information,\n(b) disclose any of that information, or\n(c) make use of any such information,\nother than for a permitted purpose specified in sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) The permitted purposes are—\n(a) purposes mentioned in Article 84A(1) of the UK GDPR (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics), or\n(b) electoral purposes.\n(4) In this paragraph, “the UK GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 24(3)(a) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 368(3)(a) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 24(3)(a) 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), 13(2)(b); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 24(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 93(3)(a) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 24(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 93(3)(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1331",
      "affecting_title": "The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/schedule/2/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:32.209917+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."
}