3. After regulation 35 of the 2001 Regulations insert—
35A.—(1) A local authority listed in paragraph (2) may disclose to a registration officer information contained in records held by that authority, for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1983 Act.
(2) The authorities are—
(a)the authority by which the registration officer was appointed; and
(b)where the council by which the registration officer was appointed is a council for a district in a county for which there is a county council, that county council.
(3) A disclosure under paragraph (1) may be made only in accordance with a written agreement between the authority and the registration officer regulating the processing of the information, including its transfer, storage, destruction and security.
(4) Where an authority refuses a request by a registration officer to disclose information under paragraph (1) it must give the registration officer written reasons for its refusal.”