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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-8C",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Provision requiring the retention or disposal, or otherwise regulating the processing, of—\n(a) information provided in an application under section 10ZC, 10ZD , 10A, 13BD, 13BE or 13C;\n(b) information provided to a person in accordance with a requirement imposed by a registration officer ... under provision made by virtue of paragraph 1(2);\n(c) information provided to a person by virtue of provision made under paragraph 3ZA , 3A or 8BA.\n(2) In this paragraph “processing” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(4) and (14) of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8C inserted (5.2.2013) by Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (c. 6), s. 27(1), Sch. 2 para. 3 (with Sch. 5); S.I. 2013/219, art. 2(c)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8C(1)(a) substituted (10.6.2014 for E.W., 15.9.2014 for N.I., 19.9.2014 for S.) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 20(2)(c)(i), 28(1)(e)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8C(1)(a) substituted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 10(a); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8C(1)(b) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 20(2)(c)(ii), 28(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8C(1)(c) inserted (27.8.2022) by Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 2 para. 10(b); S.I. 2022/916, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8C(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 18(3) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8C: function exercisable by the Scottish Ministers concurrently with a Minister of the Crown (20.3.2015) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/692), arts. 2, 5(3)(b) (with art. 6)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024"
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    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1985/50",
      "affecting_title": "Representation of the People Act 1985"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/schedule/2/paragraph/8C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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."
}