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The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

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Conditions on the use, supply and disclosure of documents open to public inspection

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118.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) the restrictions on the supply, disclosure and use of information in regulations 94 and 95 shall apply to the documents open to public inspection as they apply to the full register.

(2) Where a person—

(a)obtains copies of the information in the marked register or lists in accordance with regulation 116(1); or

(b)a person inspects information in accordance with regulation 117(1),

the permitted purpose shall mean either research purposes within the meaning of that term in section 33 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (1) or electoral purposes.

(3) Where a copy of any information was supplied in the circumstances to which regulation 117(8) applies, the permitted purpose means the purposes set out in regulation 107(3).

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