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Regulation 10 Transitional provision – surveillance which is not completed before commencement day

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(1)

Regulations 8 (revocation of Council Decisions relating to cross-border surveillance) and 9 (consequential amendment of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) do not apply to relevant surveillance by a relevant foreign police or customs officer which began but which is not completed before commencement day.

(2)

In this Regulation—

  • “relevant foreign police or customs officer” means a police or customs officer who, in relation to a country or territory other than the United Kingdom, is an officer for the purposes of Article 40 of the 1990 Schengen Convention (police co-operation);

  • “relevant surveillance” means surveillance which is carried out lawfully in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 76A of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (foreign surveillance operations).