Introductory text

Draft Rules laid before Parliament under sections 69(8) and 78(4A) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Investigatory Powers

Made ***

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 67A(5), 69(1), (2)(a) to (d), (f) and (g) and (i) to (k), (3), (4)(a) and (d) and (5)(a) and 78(5)(b) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000^f1, makes the following Rules.

In accordance with section 69(6) of that Act, the Secretary of State has had regard, in particular, to—

(a)

the need to secure that matters which are the subject of proceedings, complaints or references brought before or made to the Tribunal are properly heard and considered, and

(b)

the need to secure that information is not disclosed to an extent, or in a manner, that is contrary to the public interest or prejudicial to national security, the prevention or detection of serious crime, the economic well-being of the United Kingdom or the continued discharge of the functions of any of the intelligence services.

In accordance with sections 69(8) and 78(4A)^f2 of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

In accordance with section 69(12) of that Act the Secretary of State has consulted the Scottish Ministers.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2000 c. 23; section 67A is inserted by section 242(1) of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25) and section 69(2) is amended by section 242(4) of that Act. Section 78(5) was amended by paragraph 16(c) of Schedule 9 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9).
f2: section 78(4A) is inserted by section 242(5) of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.