(1) In connection with elections and voting at national and local level, in the six months preceding the election or vote, the registration authority is permitted to provide political parties, associations of voters and other nominated candidates with information from the population register concerning data referred to in section 44 (1) sentence 1 in relation to groups of eligible voters if these groups are constituted on the basis of their members’ age. The dates of birth of the eligible voters may not be communicated. The person or body to whom the data are provided is permitted to use these data only for advertising for an election or vote and is required to delete or destroy them no later than one month after the election or vote.
(2) Where elected officials, news media representatives or broadcasters request information from the population register concerning the birthdays or wedding anniversaries of residents, the registration authority may provide information on
1. family name,
2. given names,
3. doctoral degree,
4. address and
5. date and number of the birthday or wedding anniversary.
Birthdays within the meaning of sentence 1 are 70th birthdays and every fifth birthday until a person’s 100th birthday, then every birthday thereafter; wedding anniversaries are 50th anniversaries and every anniversary thereafter.
(3) The publishers of address directories may receive information on all residents aged 18 and over on
1. family name,
2. given names,
3. doctoral degree,
4. current addresses.
The data provided may be used only for the purpose of publishing address directories in book form.
(4) If credible evidence of a legal interest is provided, the registration authority is to provide the owner of a residence and, if he or she is not the supplier of the residence, also the supplier of the residence with information, free of charge, on the family name, given names and doctoral degree of the residents registered at his or her residence. At the request of the person authorised to receive the information, the information may be provided using an electronic procedure; section 10 (2) and (3) applies accordingly.
(5) The data subject has the right to object to the transfer of his or her data under subsections (1) to (3); he or she is to be informed of this right when registering as required by section 17 (1) and annually by public notice. Section 36 (2) sentence 2 applies accordingly.
(6) No information is provided as required by subsections (1) to (3) if a block on releasing information within the meaning of section 51 exists. Nor may information be provided as required by subsection (3) if a conditional block on releasing information within the meaning of section 52 has been entered.