(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part and the Second Schedule, a registration authority shall prepare and publish a version of the register of electors which shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the ‘edited register’ in accordance with Part 1A of the Second Schedule.

(2) An edited register published by the registration authority under subsection (1) shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 20, to be part of the register of electors.

(3) A person who uses information in the register prepared under section 13, including a draft register, the supplement to the register prepared under section 15 or in an electors list published under section 16, being information which is excluded from the edited register or edited electors list, for a purpose, other than electoral or other statutory purpose, shall be guilty of an offence.

(3A) A person may use information in the register prepared under section 13, including a draft register or the supplement to the register prepared under section 15, being information which is excluded from the edited register, for the purpose of selecting citizens of Ireland to participate in the Convention on the Constitution called pursuant to a decision of the Government made on 21 February 2012 and approved by resolution of each House
of the Oireachtas.

(4) A registration authority shall not be obliged to comply with subsection (1) until the day which is 3 years after the commencement of section 4 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2001, but if it complies with that subsection before that day, subsection (3) and section 133 (as amended by section 32 of the said Act) shall apply accordingly.