6.—(1) Regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations (copies of documents) shall become paragraph (1) of regulation 7.
(2) After that paragraph insert—
“(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the full register.
(3) A person inspecting the full register may not—
(a)make copies of any part of it, or
(b)record any particulars included in it,
otherwise than by means of hand-written notes.
(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.
(5) In this regulation “full register” includes—
(a)any part of it; and
(b)any notice published under section 13A(2) or 13B(3) of the 1983 Act(1) altering the register.”
Sections 13A and 13B were substituted by Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2).