>The permitted use of the full register for members of the public includes
checking >their own entries to ensure they are correct.
Agreed
>If someone was allowed to take hand-written notes for purposes such as
marketing, say a >builder knew a particular street was having a lot of work
done or an "ambulance chaser" >was aware of a leak of industrial effluent,
that use would be illegal and the ER
>supervisor would have to make sure this was not happening.
Is this really the case? The majority of the offences listed at Regulation
115 deal with contraventions by particular bodies which have been supplied
with copies for particular uses and the offence occurs (basically) when
another use is made of the information or it is passed on. The offences
relating to inspection - i.e. 7(4), 97(4) and 99(5) - only occur if someone
makes copies of part of the register or records any particulars within it
other than by means of hand-written notes. There is no mention (that I can
see) of any restriction on the purpose for which the hand-written notes are
taken - but I'll be happy to be corrected if I've missed something.
>On the other side, I know of some councils still allowing unfettered use
of the >register in that the access to it in libraries is often
unsupervised. Some give >electronic (searchable) versions to all council
departments and some even respond to >telephone enquiries like "can you
tell me who lives at xxxxxxxx?"
Now that I would crack down on if it were happening here.
Regards,
Graham
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