Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 2: Civil Registration Section 46: Disclosure of information by civil registration officials
This section inserts new sections 19AA, 19AB and 19AC, concerning the disclosure of information by civil registration officials, into the Registration Service Act 1953.
	New section 19AA allows civil registration officials to disclose any information they hold to another registration official or to a specified public authority. Before disclosing any information a civil registration official must ensure that the information is required by a recipient to fulfil one or more of their functions. If there are restrictions in other legislation which prevent disclosure of certain data then the civil registration official would not be able to share that data.
	New section 19AB specifies the public authorities to which a registration official is able to disclose data. Subsections (2) to (7) of this section enable the Secretary of State to make regulations to add, modify or remove public authorities from the list and to make different provision for different purposes. It also sets out the parliamentary procedure for regulations made under this section: they are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure, which requires the regulations to be approved by both Houses of Parliament.
	New section 19AC requires the Registrar General to issue a code of practice for civil registration officials to have regard to when considering the disclosure of information under section 19AA. The code of practice must be consistent with the code of practice issued by the Information Commissioner under section 52B of the Data Protection Act 1998.
	Civil registration officials disclosing information under new section 19AA must have regard to the code of practice and to applicable codes of practice that the Information Commissioner has issued under section 51(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998 on the identification and reduction of risks to privacy or on information to be provided to data subjects on the use of information collected from them. Subsections (4) to (7) of new section 19AC enable the Registrar General to revise and re-issue the code of practice having consulted with those listed at subsection (5). The code of practice will be subject to approval by a resolution in both Houses of Parliament before it is first issued, and subject to the draft negative procedure for every reissue.
	New subsection (1A) to section 19B of the Registration Service Act 1953 allows for the Minister to make regulations for fees to be payable to a civil registration official in respect of the disclosure by the official of information under new section 19AA.