{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016/schedule-7/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/25",
  "legislation_title": "Investigatory Powers Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or part of a code.\n(2) Before issuing any revision of a code the Secretary of State must—\n(a) prepare and publish a draft, and\n(b) consider any representations made about it,\nand may modify the draft.\n(3) The Secretary of State must, in particular, consult the Investigatory Powers Commissioner and, in the case of a code relating to the exercise of functions conferred by virtue of Part 4, the Information Commission.\n(4) A revision of a code comes into force in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.\n(5) A statutory instrument containing such regulations must be laid before Parliament if the regulations have been made without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(6) When an instrument or draft instrument is laid, the revision of a code to which it relates must also be laid.\n(7) No instrument or draft instrument may be laid until the consultation required by sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) has taken place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 5(3) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 20(g)(iii); S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 5 in force at 13.2.2017 by S.I. 2017/137, reg. 2(t)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}