{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-32ZBB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-32ZBB.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/497",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/32ZBB",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32ZBB",
  "heading": "Annual canvass data matching",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (7) and (8), each registration officer must disclose to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government the matching data in respect of each person aged 16 or over who is registered in a register ... maintained by that registration officer.\n(2) The matching data must be disclosed in such format and through such an infrastructure system as the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government may have notified to the registration officer in writing.\n(3) Following receipt of the matching data from the registration officer, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government may disclose that data to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.\n(4) Where matching data has been disclosed to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under paragraph (3), the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions may compare it against information appearing in the following types of database kept by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions—\n(a) databases kept for the purposes of functions relating to social security (including such information kept on behalf of the Department for Communities (Northern Ireland)); and\n(b) databases relating to working tax credit, child tax credit and child benefit (being information kept on behalf of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs).\n(5) The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions may disclose the results of the data comparison to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government .\n(6) On receipt of such results, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government may disclose them to the registration officer in whose register the person concerned is registered.\n(7) Where—\n(a) a registration officer has successfully determined a person’s application under section 10ZC(1) or 10ZD(1) of the 1983 Act at any time during the 90 day period ending with the day before the day on which the registration officer proposes to commence disclosure of matching data in accordance with paragraph (1); and\n(b) that person’s entry on the register has been published in a notice of alteration under section 13A(2) of the 1983 Act,\nthe registration officer may disclose matching data for that person to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government but is not required to do so.\n(8) Where a person falls within the scope of section 9D(6) of the 1983 Act the registration officer must not disclose that person’s matching data under paragraph (1).\n(9) In this regulation—\n“infrastructure system” has the meaning given in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003;\n“matching data” means—\n(a)a person’s full name;\n(b)where held by the registration officer, a person’s date of birth;\n(c)the address, including postcode, of the property at which a person is registered;\n(d)where held by the registration officer, the unique property reference number of the property at which a person is registered; and\n(e)any other information held by the registration officer which relates to a person’s entry on the register and which the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government may have specified in writing;\n...",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 32ZA-32ZI inserted (10.6.2014) by The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Description of Electoral Registers and Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3206), regs. 1(5)(c), 22 (as amended by S.I. 2014/1250, regs. 1, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 32ZBA-32ZBG inserted (31.12.2019) by The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1451), regs. 1(3), 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(1) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(a) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(1) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(1) omitted (27.4.2020) by virtue of The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/113), regs. 1(2), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(2) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(a) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(2) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(3) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(b)(i) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(3) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(3) inserted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(b)(ii) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(4) inserted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(c) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(5) inserted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(d)(i) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(5) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(d)(ii) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(5) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(6) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(e) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(6) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(7) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(e) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(7) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8)(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(9) substituted (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(f)(i) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(9)(e) substituted (30.10.2024) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/991), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(9)(b) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32ZBB(9) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29(9)(f)(ii) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 32ZBB, 32ZBC: transfer of functions (8.12.2021) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265), arts. 1(2), 7(3)(b) (with arts. 8, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/497/regulation/32ZBB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:49.998694+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."
}