Regulation 10 Enforcement
(1)
A local authority may authorise any person to exercise in its area, for an authorised purpose and in accordance with the terms of the authorisation, any of the powers specified in regulation 11, if that person appears to the local authority suitable to exercise them.
(2)
An authorisation under paragraph (1) must be in writing.
(3)
In this regulation “writing” includes electronic communications within the meaning of section 15(1) (general interpretation) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000f1, which have been recorded and are subsequently capable of being reproduced in written form.
Annotations
Footnotes
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2000 c. 7. Section 15(1) was amended by paragraph 158 of schedule 17 of the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).