Act on the Harmonisation of Official Registers (Cantonal Register Harmonisation Act, KRG) - Purpose (KRG)

1. This law implements the Federal Act on the Harmonization of Population Registers and Other Official Registers of Persons (RHG).

2. It establishes a cantonal data platform and defines the associated rights and obligations of the users.

1. The law applies to

a) the population registers

b) the subject register

c) databases of other authorities, bodies, and individuals, insofar as they fulfill a legal mandate and process data within the meaning of this law

1. The terms used in this law correspond to those of the Federal Act on the Harmonization of Residents' Registers and Other Official Personal Registers.

2. The subject register contains attributes about individuals who have a legal relationship, in terms of property ownership, rental, or lease, with a parcel of land, building, or apartment in the Canton of Uri, without being registered in the residents' register.

1. Unless this law or the decrees based on it provide otherwise, the provisions of the cantonal Data Protection Act (RB 2.2511) shall apply.

1. The canton operates a cantonal data platform that contains all characteristics required under federal and cantonal law, namely those of the residents' register and the federal building and housing register. The government council decides on the associated expenditures.

2. The characteristics of the different registers are linked by means of personal and object identifiers. The government council may expand the content of the cantonal data platform by regulation, as long as it serves the public interest and involves data whose processing is provided for by specific legislation.

3. The cantonal data platform

a) records notifications from the connected registers

b) serves for data exchange with the federal government

c) provides authorized parties with access to data

4. The sovereignty of the data remains with the entity maintaining the data in its register. Only this entity is authorized to modify data. Additions to the data are considered new data and belong to the entity that adds the additions to the register.

1. The insured person's number, according to Article 50c of the Federal Act on Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance (SR 831.10), serves as the personal identifier.

2. For companies with a unified business identification number (UID), this number serves as the personal identifier.

3. For property owners without an insured person's number, the competent authority assigns a character string as a personal identifier that does not allow for any conclusions to be drawn about the individual.

4. Authorities, agencies, and persons connected to the cantonal data platform may use the personal identifier to fulfill their legally mandated tasks.

1. The identification of objects is conducted via the federal building identifier (EGID) and the federal dwelling identifier (EWID).

1. Authorities, entities, and individuals who collect data pursuant to Article 2 are required to report this data electronically to the cantonal data platform no later than within five days.

2. The Government Council shall designate the authorities, entities, and individuals subject to the reporting obligation in a regulation.

1. Authorities, bodies, and persons connected to the cantonal data platform are permitted to access the data necessary for the fulfillment of their legal mandate.

2. The government council shall determine the scope of the entitlement to and the conditions for accessing data by the affiliated authorities in a regulation. It may expand the entitlements and those entitled to access, provided there is a significant substantive reason for doing so.

1. The disclosure of data to the Confederation is governed by federal law on registry harmonization.

1. The canton may disclose data from the cantonal data platform to third parties if the requirements of the Cantonal Data Protection Act (RB 2.2511) are met and the data owner consents to the disclosure.

1. The canton shall bear the costs for the establishment and operation of the cantonal data platform.

2. The municipalities shall bear the costs for the adaptation of their systems, their connection to the cantonal data platform, the collection, recording, and forwarding of data.

3. The data exchange on the cantonal data platform shall be free of charge for the entitled parties within the framework of Article 9.

4. A fee shall be charged for the disclosure of data to third parties in accordance with the Fee Ordinance (RB 3.2512) and the Fee Regulation (RB 3.2521).

1. The Government Council supervises the implementation of federal law on the harmonization of registers and this law.

1. The competent directorate operates the cantonal data platform in accordance with the provisions of this law.

2. It is the cantonal office as per Article 9 RHG. In fulfilling its tasks, it must appropriately involve the municipalities.

3. It has the following specific responsibilities

a) To ensure the secure operation of the cantonal data platform

b) To ensure data exchange between the cantonal data platform and data providers

c) To ensure secure data exchange with the national data exchange platform

d) To ensure secure data access for other authorized recipients

1. The municipalities maintain the resident register electronically in accordance with Article 6 RHG.

1. Municipalities may register individuals who have a legal relationship to a property, building, or apartment in the municipality in terms of ownership, tenancy, or lease, without being entered in the population register.

1. For the identification of individual apartments, municipal administrations may introduce physical apartment numbers and may either affix these themselves or have them affixed by third parties.

1. The Municipalities

a) receive the notifications, process them, and conduct the necessary investigations

b) inform the individuals subject to registration at the time of registration and deregistration which registration obligations with other public authorities have been fulfilled

c) are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and currency of their registers

d) transmit the data and its amendments to the cantonal data platform pursuant to Article 8

e) preserve the deposited documents

1. At the residents' registration office, individuals must register who

a) establish residence or habitation in the municipality

b) relinquish their residence or habitation in the municipality

c) relocate their residence or habitation within the municipality or within a building

2. Exempt from the obligation to register is anyone who resides in a municipality for less than three consecutive months or less than three months within a year.

3. This registration fulfills all reporting obligations to authorities, offices, and individuals connected to the cantonal data platform.

1. Persons who have a legal relationship to a property, building, or apartment in the municipality in terms of ownership, rental, or lease, without being registered in the residents' register, are required to report their address, any address changes, and other necessary details to the municipality in order to maintain the registers according to Articles 15 and 16.

1. Reporting Obligations under Articles 19 and 20 must be fulfilled within 14 days from the occurrence of the reportable event.

1. The following individuals are required to provide municipalities with information about persons required to register, free of charge, upon request, if the registration obligation under Articles 19 and 20 is not fulfilled

a) Employers for the persons employed by them

b) Landlords, landladies, and property management companies for tenants moving in, moving out, and residing

c) Hosts for persons residing in their household

d) Heads of collective households within the meaning of the Register Harmonization Ordinance

e) Heads of industrial works and other register-keeping entities for data necessary to determine and update a person's dwelling identifier

2. The obligation to provide information also applies to the authority under Article 14, paragraph 2, insofar as it is necessary to control the quality of the data.

1. Persons subject to notification and information obligations must provide the residents' registration office with truthful information about the facts to be recorded in the municipal registers as specified in Articles 15 and 16. If requested by the municipality, they must verify the accuracy of the information in an appropriate manner.

1. Whoever violates the obligation to report or provide information imposed by this law or the legal decrees based on it shall be punished with a fine.

2. The procedure shall be governed by the provisions of criminal justice administration.

1. The Executive Council enforces this law. It issues implementing regulations for this purpose.

1. The data providers according to Article 8 are obligated to provide the relevant data, in finalized form, to the cantonal data platform no later than January 15, 2010, and from that date forward, assume the legal duties for maintaining these data.

1. This Law is subject to a referendum. It shall enter into force on January 1, 2009.