{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016/section-251",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016/section-251.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/25",
  "legislation_title": "Investigatory Powers Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016",
  "path": "section/251",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "251",
  "heading": "Amendments of the Intelligence Services Act 1994",
  "text": "(1) The Intelligence Services Act 1994 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (the Government Communications Headquarters)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), after “monitor” insert “ , make use of ”, and\n(b) in the words following subsection (1)(b)(ii), for the words from “or to any other organisation” to the end substitute “ or, in such cases as it considers appropriate, to other organisations or persons, or to the general public, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. ”\n(3) In section 5 (warrants: general)—\n(a) in subsection (2), omit “, subject to subsection (3) below,”,\n(b) omit subsection (3), and\n(c) in subsection (3A), after “1989” insert “ , or on the application of the Intelligence Service or GCHQ for the purposes of the exercise of their functions by virtue of section 1(2)(c) or 3(2)(c), ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 251 in force at 13.2.2017 by S.I. 2017/137, reg. 2(r)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/25/section/251",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:02.282680+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."
}