The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Northern Ireland and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015

Disclosures by registration officials

7.—(1) A registration official may—

(a) disclose any information held by the registration official, or

(b) supply any document held by the registration official,

to the Secretary of State, or to another registration official, for use for either of the following purposes.

(2) Those purposes are—

(a) immigration purposes;

(b) purposes connected with the exercise of functions relating to—

(i) the referral of proposed marriages to the Secretary of State under Article 3E of the 2003 Order, or

(ii) the referral of proposed civil partnerships to the Secretary of State under section 139E of the 2004 Act.

(3) In this paragraph “immigration purposes” means—

(a) the administration of immigration control under the Immigration Acts;

(b) the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of criminal offences relating to immigration;

(c) the imposition of penalties or charges under Part 3 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(1) (bail);

(d) the provision of support for asylum-seekers and their dependants under Part 6 of that Act (support for asylum-seekers);

(e) such other purposes as may be specified by the Secretary of State by order under section 54(6) of the 2014 Act.

(1)

1999 c. 33.