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Section 55

Regulatory powers of the Länder

(1) Land law may stipulate that data and remarks other than those referred to in section 3 are processed to carry out tasks of the Länder.

(2) Land law may stipulate that further data in addition to those referred to in section 42 may be transferred to religious communities under public law to carry out their tasks.

(3) Land law may govern the establishment, operation and tasks of central collections of registration data. In this case, sections 4, 5, 6 (2) sentences 1 and 2 and sections 7, 8, 10, 11 and 40 apply accordingly.

(4) Land law may specify the template for registration forms when registering as required by section 17 (1) and (2) sentence 1, for the registration certificate referred to in section 18 (1), for the confirmation of registration referred to in section 24 (2) and for the special registration form referred to in section 30 (1).

(5) Land law may govern regularly occurring data transfers in accordance with section 36 (1) in the context of carrying out tasks of the Länder, as long as the reason for and purpose of the transfer are determined and the recipient and the data to be transferred are specified therein.

(6) Land law may govern the transfer of additional data and remarks pursuant to section 34a (4) in the context of carrying out tasks of the Länder, as long as the reason for and purpose of the transfer are determined and the recipient and the data to be transferred are specified therein.

(7) Land law may determine which additional data as required by section 38 (3) may be used as selection data for retrieval in the context of carrying out tasks of the Länder, as long as the reason for and purpose of the transfer are specified therein.

(8) Land law may determine which other bodies as referred to in section 39 (3) offer data for retrieval. Where it has been stipulated that data retrieval within a Land may, in derogation from section 39 (3), be effected via networks within the Land, it is to be ensured that measures as referred to in Articles 24, 25 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 are implemented.

(9) Land law may not derogate from the provisions of section 33 (1) to (3) and (6), section 34 (6) and section 39 (3), nor from the provisions of administrative procedure based on section 56 (1).

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