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Identity Cards Act 2006 (repealed)
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15Power to provide for checks on the RegisterU.K.
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(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision authorising a person providing a public service in respect of which—
(a)a condition is imposed under section 13, or
(b)a condition for the production of an ID card, or of evidence of registrable facts, or both, is imposed by or under any other enactment,
to be provided with information recorded in the Register that he requires for the purpose of ascertaining or verifying registrable facts about an individual who has applied for the provision of the service.
(2)Regulations under this section may not authorise the provision to any person of information falling within paragraph 9 of Schedule 1.
(3)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision as to—
(a)the manner in which applications for the provision of information under this section must be made;
(b)the persons by whom, and the circumstances in which, such an application may be made; and
(c)the information that may be provided in response to such an application and the manner in which it may be provided.
(4)The Secretary of State may by regulations make it a condition of the provision of information under this section—
(a)that the person to whom it is provided has registered prescribed particulars about himself with the Secretary of State;
(b)that that person and the applicant for the information (where different) are for the time being approved by the Secretary of State in the prescribed manner; and
(c)that apparatus used for the purposes of the application, and apparatus that it is proposed to use for the receipt and storage of the information, is for the time being approved in the prescribed manner by the person specified in or determined under the regulations.
(5)The power of the Secretary of State under this section to provide information about an individual to another person is exercisable only where the provision of the information is subject to the satisfaction in relation to that other person of conditions imposed under subsection (4)(a) and (b).
(6)The Secretary of State must not make regulations containing (with or without other provision) any provision that he is authorised to make by this section unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.
(7)Before draft regulations under this section are laid before either House of Parliament, the Secretary of State must take such steps as he thinks fit for securing that—
(a)members of the public in the United Kingdom are informed about the reasons for the proposal to make the regulations; and
(b)for consulting them about it.
(8)In this section “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in an Act of the Scottish Parliament.
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