S.L. 546.4 Art. 3Office of the Registrar.    Cap. 595.   Cap. 595.

(1) There shall be established the Office of the

Address Registrar, which shall be under the management of the Registrar, whose functions shall be as defined in these regulations.

(2) The Registrar shall be designated as the data owner in respect of the data as processed following its inclusion in the Register and subsidiary registers.

(3) The Registrar shall be the public officer holding the office of Chief Electoral Commissioner in his capacity as Head of Department in the Electoral Office for the purposes of the Public Administration

Act.

(4) The Registrar shall carry out all the functions required for the purpose of any matter connected with the establishment and management of the Register and subsidiary registers:

Provided that without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-regulation (1), the functions of the Registrar shall include:

(a)* the creation and maintenance of address records, ensuring the quality and accuracy of the address records within the Register and subsidiary registers in so far as the details may be ascertained or verified on the basis of other official registers and other official data sources as the Registrar may deem fit and as may be required from time to time;

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(b) the regulation related to the manner in which the Register and subsidiary registers are to be made and kept;

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(c) the retention of an audit trail of the changes and amendments to the Register and subsidiary registers;

(d) the issuance of standards related to:

(i) street naming;

(ii) building and door naming;

(iii) door numbering; and

(iv) any other matter that the Registrar deems necessary;

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(e) the establishment, together with such entities as the Registrar considers appropriate, as far as possible, of the geocoding of addressable objects;

(f) the establishment of official processes for the implementation of functions of the Registrar, maintenance of

*Not yet in force. †Not yet in force. ‡Not yet in force. §Not yet in force. (GEOSPATIAL) REGISTERS

the Register and subsidiary registers, creation of new addresses or changes to an existing address;

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(g) the creation of the relative URI;

(h) prescribing the formalities that are to be observed, the precautions that are to be taken, the instruments that are to be used, the notices that are to be issued, and the evidence that is to be brought in all processes before the Registrar or in connection with the registration;

(i)† regulating the custody of any data which from time to time comes into the Registrar’s possession, with power to direct the destruction of any such data where it would have become altogether superseded by entries in the Register, or have ceased to have any effect;

(j) the conduct of official searches and address certification;

(k) prescribing the way any notices required by these regulations are to be issued;

(l) any other functions ancillary thereto, including the issuing of orders in the Gazette.

(5) The Registrar may, in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, delegate any one or more of its functions under such conditions as it may deem appropriate.

(6) The Registrar may appoint officers, as may be required from time to time, as provided by the Public Administration Act, in order to ensure that the functions of the Office of the Address Registrar are duly carried out.