{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1741",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-northern-ireland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Copies of documents",
  "text": "(1) Where a document is made available for inspection under these Regulations, any person may make a copy (whether hand-written or by other means) of the whole or any part of it.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the full register.\n(3) A person inspecting the full register 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(4) A person who inspects the full register and makes a copy of it or records any particulars included in it otherwise than by means of hand-written notes shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(5) In this regulation “full register” includes—\n(a) any part of it; and\n(b) any notice published under section 13A(2) or 13BA(3),(6) or (9) of the 1983 Act altering the register.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 13A and 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act and section 13BA was inserted by section 6 of the Miscellaneous Provisions Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1741/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:48.174495+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."
}