47Public inspection of authorised roll during election period

#### 47 Public inspection of authorised roll during election period 47 Public inspection of authorised roll during election period > > (1) As soon as practicable after an authorised roll for a district has been prepared by the Electoral Commissioner after the issue of the writ for an election, the Commissioner is to make a copy of the roll available for public inspection. > > > (2) The copy of the authorised roll is— > > > > > (a) to be made available, during ordinary office hours, for public inspection without fee at the office of the Electoral Commission and such other place or places as the Electoral Commissioner determines, and > > > > > (b) to remain available for public inspection until 40 days after the return of the writ. > > > (3) The Electoral Commissioner may make a copy of an authorised roll available for public inspection without fee in any other way that the Commissioner considers appropriate. > > > (4) A person inspecting a copy of an authorised roll under this section is not entitled to use a device (such as a camera, mobile phone, video recorder or other electronic device) to copy, record or transmit the contents of the roll or any part of the roll, but this subsection does not prevent a person taking hand-written notes of any of those contents. > > > (5) A copy of an authorised roll made available under this section must not contain any particulars relating to a person’s date of birth. > > Note. > > The authorised roll used at a voting centre will specify a person’s date of birth. It is only the special copy prepared for the purposes of this section that will have the date of birth removed. > > An authorised roll is a public register for the purposes of the [Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1998-133) and is subject to the provisions of that Act relating to such public registers.