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1

Provision authorising or requiring a person to disclose information to another person for the purpose of assisting a registration officer in Great Britain—

a

to verify information relating to a person who is registered in a register maintained by the officer or who is named in an application for registration in, or alteration of, a register,

b

to ascertain the names and addresses of people who are not registered but who are entitled to be registered, or

c

to identify those people who are registered but who are not entitled to be registered.

2

Provision made under sub-paragraph (1) may authorise or require the person to whom the information is disclosed—

a

to compare it with other information;

b

to disclose the results of the comparison to a registration officer for the purpose mentioned in that sub-paragraph.

3

The provision that may be made under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) includes provision—

a

conferring other functions on a person;

b

authorising the Secretary of State to make grants to a person on whom functions are conferred;

c

authorising a person to disclose or otherwise process information only in accordance with an agreement;

d

authorising or requiring a person to disclose or otherwise process information only in accordance with requirements imposed by the Secretary of State;

e

regulating the manner in which information is disclosed;

f

requiring the retention or disposal, or otherwise regulating the processing, of information disclosed.

4

Provision made under this paragraph has effect despite any statutory or other restriction on the disclosure of information.

5

In this paragraph “processing” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 1998.