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Article 41
 

Access to data of Electoral Register



  1. A Royal-Decree (Real Decreto) shall make provision for specifying he electors’ personal data that are to be entered in the Electoral Register, as well as those of lists and copies of the electoral register.

  2. Any disclosure of information contained in the Electoral Register is hereby forbidden, unless disclosure is requested through a court of law.

  3. Notwithstanding subsection 2, the Electoral Register Office may disclose statistical data that do not reveal personal information about electors.

  4. Self-Governing Communities may, after call of the election, obtain a copy of the Electoral Register with the related corrections, in a fashion that allows computerized treatment.

  5. Representatives of each list of candidates are entitled to obtain within two days following the official proclamation of candidates a copy of the constituency register, arranged by polling bureaus and with a support allowing computerized treatment, provided that such treatment shall only be used for the purposes of this Act. General electoral representatives may alternatively obtain in the same conditions a copy of the Register currently in force in the constituencies where their party, federation or coalition has put up candidates. Judicial District Electoral Commissions (Juntas de Zona) shall also have a copy of the electoral register corresponding to their territorial jurisdiction.  Electoral Commissions may preventively suspend by reasoned decision the handing of register copies to the aforesaid representatives where the proclamation of their lists of candidates has been challenged by petition or where those lists are deemed to fall into one of the situations contemplated in Section 44, subs. 4, of this Act.

  6. Exceptionally and on duly justified grounds persons who may be subject to threat or compulsion endangering their life, their physical integrity or their freedom may be struck off the copies of the Electoral Register referred to in subsection 5 above.


 SECT. 41 AS AMENDED BY SECT.5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/2003, OF NOVEMBER 28  5. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 3 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 3/2011, OF JANUARY 28