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Paragraph 24 Restriction on use of absent voter records or lists or the information contained in them

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

This paragraph applies to any person who has obtained access to the information covered by paragraph 20(1) by any means.

(2)

No person to whom this paragraph applies may—

(a)

supply a copy of the information or any part of that information,

(b)

disclose any of that information, or

(c)

make use of any such information,

other than for a permitted purpose specified in sub-paragraph (3).

(3)

The permitted purposes are—

F1(a)

purposes mentioned in F2Article 84A(1) of the F3UK GDPR (archiving in the public interest, scientific or historical research and statistics), or

(b)

electoral purposes.

F4(4)

In this paragraph, “the UK GDPR” has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

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)

F2

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)

F3

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)

F4

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)