{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/652",
  "legislation_title": "The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Exclusion of matters from legal proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Section 56 of the 2016 Act (exclusion of matters from legal proceedings etc.) has effect as if the references in subsection (1) to “interception-related conduct” included—\n(a) conduct occurring between 27th June 2018 and 8th August 2018 that is the making of an application for a warrant under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of RIPA by or on behalf of, or the issue of such a warrant addressed to, the head of an intelligence service or the Chief of Defence Intelligence;\n(b) conduct occurring between 27th July 2018 and the day on which the repeal of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of RIPA by paragraph 45 of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act is fully in force that is the making of an application for a warrant, or the issue of a warrant, under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of RIPA;\n(c) the imposition of any requirement on any person to provide assistance in giving effect to any such warrant.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17(2) omitted (30.8.2018) by virtue of The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/940), reg. 9(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/652/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:22.458103+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}