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ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 44
Collection and maintenance of electoral information
(1) The Electoral Commissioner is-- (a) to collect such information (
"electoral information" ) as the Electoral Commissioner considers necessary
for the maintenance and revision of the Electoral Information Register, and
(b) to maintain and regularly revise that electoral information.
(2) Without
limiting subsection (1), the Electoral Commissioner may collect
personal information (including a person's telephone and email contact details
and any other information or code used to identify a person) relating to a
person for the purposes of determining the following-- (a) whether the address
for which the person is enrolled is the person's real residence,
(b) if the
person is not enrolled--whether the person is entitled to be enrolled for any
district.
(3) The Electoral Commissioner (and officers acting under the
direction of the Electoral Commissioner) are exempt from any requirements of
the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 relating to the
collection, use or disclosure of personal information to the extent that
personal information is collected, used or disclosed for the purposes of or in
connection with this section.
(4) In this section,
"personal information" has the same meaning as it has in the
Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .
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