# The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010, Paragraph 1: Supply of free copy of full register for electoral purposes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) As soon as practicable after the relevant date, an ERO shall supply free of charge to the returning officer for the local authority or, as the case may be, each local authority for the ERO’s registration area as many printed copies of—
(a) the latest revised version of the register of electors published under section 13(1) or (3) of the 1983 Act, as the case may be;
(b) any notice setting out an alteration to the version of the register of electors published under section 13A(2), 13B(3), (3B) or (3D) or 13BB(4) or (5) of that Act; and
(c) any record of anonymous entries,
as the returning officer may reasonably require for the purposes of a Scottish Parliamentary election.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—
(a) “relevant date” means—
(i) in the case of a general election of members of the Scottish Parliament, the date of the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament as provided for at section 2(3)(a) of the 1998 Act;
(ii) where the Presiding Officer has proposed a day for the holding of the poll under section 2(5) or 3(2) of the 1998 Act, the announcement of Her Majesty’s intention to dissolve the Parliament; or
(iii) the occurrence of a vacancy of a constituency seat in the relevant constituency;
(b) the duty to supply as many printed copies of the register and notices as the returning officer may reasonably require includes a duty to supply one copy of each in data form.
(3) The duty under sub-paragraph (1) may be discharged by supplying copies of a consolidated document showing the entries in the version of the register referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) as altered by any notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) and the entries in the record referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c) together with a copy of that document in data form.
(4) No person to whom a copy of the register of electors, notices or records has been supplied under this paragraph may—
(a) supply a copy of that register, those notices or records to any person;
(b) disclose any information contained in them (that is not contained in the edited register); or
(c) make use of any such information,
except for the purposes of an election.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2999/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-elections-etc-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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