{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-174",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-174.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/174",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "174",
  "heading": "Section 173: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) An authorisation under section 173 may be given—\n(a) orally or in writing;\n(b) subject to specified conditions.\n(2) An authorisation under section 173 must specify each of the online accounts in respect of which it is given.\n(3) As soon as reasonably practicable after giving an authorisation under section 173, a senior officer must record in writing—\n(a) if the authorisation was given orally, the authorisation (including any conditions to which it is subject), and\n(b) in any case, the senior officer’s reasons for being satisfied as mentioned in section 173(2).\n(4) Any information which has been extracted under an authorisation under section 173 may be retained for so long as is necessary in all the circumstances; but this is subject to section 176.\n(5) Section 173 does not limit any other power relating to the extraction of information or otherwise.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 174 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/174",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}