(1) If a person requests information on another person or if a body other than one of those designated in section 34 (1) sentence 1 or section 35 requests information, the registration authority may provide only the following data on specific individuals (basic information from the population register):
1. family name,
2. given names, indicating name usually used,
3. doctoral degree,
4. current addresses and
5. if the person is deceased, this fact.
If the data are used for commercial purposes, these are to be stated.
(2) Subsection (1) also applies when information on a large number of persons are requested.
(3) The provision of basic information from the population register is permissible only if
1. the identity of the person on whom information is requested can be unambiguously established on the basis of the information provided in the request on
a) family name,
b) previous names,
c) given names,
d) date of birth,
e) gender or
f) address and
2. the data are not used for advertising purposes or address trading and the person or body requesting the information gives a statement to that effect.
(4) Using data from a population register commercially is prohibited unless a purpose as referred to in subsection (1) sentence 2 was indicated when making the request.
(5) Section 45 (2) applies accordingly.