Regulation 3 Application

Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations shall apply to all public communications providers.

These Regulations shall not apply, except where written notice has been given by the Secretary of State, to a public communications provider whose data are retained in the United Kingdom in accordance with these Regulations by another public communications provider.

If only a part of that data is so retained by another public communications provider, these Regulations apply to the public communications provider only with respect to the data not so retained.

A written notice must be given or published in such a manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate for bringing it to the attention of the public communications provider or the category of providers to whom it applies and must specify the extent to which and the date from which these Regulations are to apply.