ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 52
Prohibition of disclosure or commercial use of enrolment information
ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 52
Prohibition of disclosure or commercial use of enrolment information
52 Prohibition of disclosure or commercial use of enrolment information
(1)
A person must not disclose protected information unless the disclosure would
be a use of the information for a permitted purpose under section 51.
(2) A
person must not use protected information for a commercial purpose.
(3)
Without limiting subsection (2), protected information is used for a
commercial purpose if it is sold or provided or offered for sale (whether for
cash or any other valuable consideration).
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply
to the use of protected information provided under section 50 for a commercial
purpose where that use is in accordance with or is implicit in the finding of
the Electoral Commissioner under that section concerning the public interest
in providing the information.
(5) For the purposes of this section, enrolment
information is protected information if the person knows, or ought reasonably
to know, that the information has been provided under section 49 or 50.
