§ RPA 1983 Sch. 2 ¶ 1(untitled)

1 Provisions prescribing the arrangements to be made for the carrying out of his registration duties by a registration officer for part of a constituency, where the constituency is not coterminous with or wholly situated in a district , Welsh county or county borough or London borough. 2 Provisions authorising or requiring a registration officer to require persons to give information required for the purpose of his registration duties or to make declarations of any prescribed description as to matters relevant to their entitlement to be registered. 2A Provision made under sub-paragraph (2) authorising or requiring a registration officer ... to— a require a person who has made an application under section 10ZC , 10ZD, 13BD, 13BE or 13C to provide evidence that he or she is the person named in the application, or b require a person who has made an application under section 10ZC or 10ZD, or any person who has an entry in a register, to provide evidence for the purpose of enabling the officer to determine whether a person is entitled to be registered in a register maintained by the officer, must specify the kind of evidence that a person may be required to provide (for examples, see paragraphs 3ZA(5) and 3A(6) ). 2B Provision of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (2A) may authorise or require the registration officer to require a person to provide the evidence to a registration officer or to some other prescribed person (or person of a prescribed description). 3 Provisions authorising a registration officer, where— a he has by virtue of regulations under sub-paragraph (2) required any person registered in one of his registers to give him information, or to make any declaration, for the purpose of enabling him to determine whether the person is entitled to be so registered or to determine whether the person is the person who made the application under section 10ZC or 10ZD , and b the person has not within the prescribed period complied with that requirement in a manner which the officer considers satisfactory (or at all), to remove the person’s entry from the register. 4 Provisions authorising a registration officer to inspect, for the purpose of his registration duties, records kept (in whatever form) by— a any local or public authority of any prescribed description, or b any person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any function of, any such authority, and to make copies of information contained in such records. 4A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Provisions made under sub-paragraph (4) ... above shall have effect despite any statutory or other restriction on the disclosure of information. 5A References in this paragraph to a registration officer’s registration duties include references to— a in the case of a registration officer in Great Britain, the officer’s functions— i under sections 13BD and 13BE, and ii in relation to applications under paragraph 3, 4 or 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 2000 ... ; b in the case of the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, the Chief Electoral Officer’s functions— i under section 13C, and ii in relation to applications under section 6, 7 or 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1985. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .