{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-overseas-production-orders-act-2019/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-overseas-production-orders-act-2019/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/5",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-overseas-production-orders-act-2019",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Designation of international agreements for purposes of section 52 of Investigatory Powers Act 2016",
  "text": "(1) Section 52 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (interception of communications in accordance with overseas requests) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3), at the end insert “ (see further subsections (6) and (7)) ”.\n(3) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(6) Subsection (7) applies where an international agreement provides for requests for the interception of a communication to be made by the competent authorities of a country or territory, or of more than one country or territory, in which a person found guilty of a criminal offence may be sentenced to death for the offence under the general criminal law of the country or territory concerned.\nSuch an offence is referred to in subsection (7) as a “death penalty offence”.\n(7) Where this subsection applies, the Secretary of State may not designate the agreement as a relevant international agreement unless the Secretary of State has sought, in respect of each country or territory referred to in subsection (6), a written assurance, or written assurances, relating to the non-use of information obtained by virtue of the agreement in connection with proceedings for a death penalty offence in the country or territory.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 9.10.2019 by S.I. 2019/1318, reg. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/5/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:23.868079+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."
}