(1) Anyone admitted to or moving to a hospital, care home or other institution serving persons with disabilities or in need of care or for the purpose of residential education is not required to register as long as he or she is registered at a residence in Germany. Anyone who is not registered at a residence in Germany is required to register within two weeks as soon as his or stay exceeds three months. As regards persons who are unable to fulfil the registration requirement, the managers of the institution are required to inform the registration authority responsible for the site of the institution within two weeks of their admittance; the data subjects are to be informed. Section 17 (3) sentence 3 remains unaffected.
(2) The responsible authority is to be provided with information from the files of the institutions referred to if the authority has determined that this information is necessary to prevent a significant and imminent threat, to prosecute criminal offences or to investigate the fate of missing persons and accident victims in the individual case. This information includes the following data:
1. family name,
2. given names,
3. date and place of birth, including country for persons not born in Germany,
4. nationalities,
5. addresses,
6. date of admittance and date of release.