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at 11:39:50 on Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Lee Gardiner <[log in to unmask]>
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        "(e) by any person who can show to the satisfaction of the
        Secretary of State that he has reasonable cause for wanting the
        particulars to be made available to him"

>I would assume that is because you haven't been able to satisfy the
>necessary conditions under the Road Vehicles Regs to override the DPA
>and allow disclosure under, I assume, S35 or similar.

Where are these conditions [defining "reasonable cause"] published? Is
it something as informal as a Code of Practice (for DVLA or whatever),
or as formal as [another] SI?

Are the nature and extent of the conditions drawn up entirely at the
whim of the SoS, or is there some other umbrella regulation - perhaps in
a form similar to DPA 29(3) - that acts as a template when the SoS draws
up a list of conditions from time to time?

[Presumably the SoS then delegates the implementation of checking
whether individual applications comply with the conditions - this isn't
like wiretapping where he literally has to examine every application
himself.]

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