{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/873",
  "legislation_title": "The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Communications data retention provisions coming into force on 1st November 2018",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2016 Act come into force on 1st November 2018—\n(a) sections 87 to 96 (retention of communications data), so far as not already in force;\n(b) in section 229, in subsection (8), paragraphs (e) and (f) (exceptions to duty on Judicial Commissioner not to act contrary to public interest), so far as not already in force;\n(c) in section 231, in subsection (9), paragraph (a) to the extent that it applies to an error relating to Part 4 of the 2016 Act;\n(d) in section 243, in subsection (1), paragraph (i) so far as it inserts paragraph (ba);\n(e) paragraph 62 of Schedule 10, and section 271(1) so far as it relates to that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/873/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:14.259498+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."
}