The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009

Provision of information to specified public authorities

9.—(1) The following public authorities are specified under section 20(1)(c) of the 2006 Act (power to authorise provision of information in other circumstances)—

(a)the Security Industry Authority; and

(b)the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.

(2) In respect of the Security Industry Authority—

(a)information of a description set out in paragraph (3); and

(b)purposes connected with the carrying out of that Authority’s functions under section 1(2)(a) to (d) of the Private Security Act 2001(1),

are specified under section 20(1)(b) and (d) of the 2006 Act.

(3) The description of information referred to in paragraph (2)(a) is information recorded in an entry in the Register of an individual (P) which is—

(a)any name by which P is or has been known;

(b)P’s date of birth;

(c)any addresses where P has a place of residence;

(d)the number of any ID card issued to P;

(e)a photograph of P’s head and shoulders (showing the features of the face);

(f)P’s signature;

(g)particulars of every person who has countersigned, or been named as a referee in connection with, P’s application for an ID card or a designated document, so far as those particulars were included on the application; and

(h)information provided in connection with an application by P to be entered in the Register, for a modification of the contents of P’s entry or for the issue of an ID card, so far as that information relates to places where P claims to have resided.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), in respect of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency—

(a)information, the inclusion of which in an individual’s entry in the Register is authorised by Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act; and

(b)purposes connected with carrying out that Agency’s functions under section 2(2) of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006(2),

are specified under section 20(1)(b) and (d) of the 2006 Act.

(5) Information referred to in paragraph (4)(a) does not include information falling within paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act.