Regulation 10 Transitory and saving provisions regarding the Scottish Assistant Surveillance Commissioners

(1)

Where a person holds office as an Assistant Surveillance Commissioner appointed under section 3 of RIPSA immediately before the coming into force of section 240 of the 2016 Act, sections 2(3), (4), and (6) to (8) and 3 of RIPSA continue to have effect in relation to such a person until—

(a)

30th April 2018, or

(b)

the day on which the person ceases to be an Assistant Surveillance Commissioner in accordance with section 3 of RIPSA, if earlier.

(2)

But paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is appointed as a Judicial Commissioner.

(3)

So far as continuing to have effect by virtue of paragraph (1), section 3 of RIPSA is to be read as if—

(a)

for subsection (3) there were substituted—

“(3)
The Investigatory Powers Commissioner may require a Surveillance Commissioner appointed under subsection (1) to provide the Investigatory Powers Commissioner with assistance in carrying out functions under section 229(3)(g) of the Act.”, and

(b)

in subsection (4), for “the Chief Surveillance Commissioner” there were substituted “the Investigatory Powers Commissioner”.