{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-amendment-act-2024-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-amendment-act-2024-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1021",
  "legislation_title": "The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-amendment-act-2024-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 14th October 2024",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 come into force on 14th October 2024—\n(a) section 1 (requirement for authorisation);\n(b) section 2 (low or no reasonable expectation of privacy);\n(c) section 3 (duration of bulk personal dataset warrants);\n(d) section 4 (agency head functions);\n(e) section 5 (third party bulk personal datasets), other than the insertion into the 2016 Act of sections 226F and 226FA;\n(f) section 6 (minor and consequential amendments);\n(g) section 7 (deputy investigatory powers commissioners);\n(h) section 8 (delegation of functions);\n(i) section 9 (temporary judicial commissioners);\n(j) section 10 (main functions of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner);\n(k) section 11 (personal data breaches);\n(l) section 12 (offence of unlawfully obtaining communications data);\n(m) section 13 (meaning of “communications data”: subscriber details);\n(n) section 14 (powers to obtain communications data);\n(o) section 15 (internet connection records);\n(p) section 16 (powers to require retention of certain data);\n(q) section 17 (extra-territorial enforcement of retention notices etc);\n(r) section 19 (meaning of “telecommunications operator” etc);\n(s) section 20 (renewal of notices);\n(t) section 22 (interception and examination of communications: Members of Parliament etc);\n(u) section 23 (equipment interference: Members of Parliament etc);\n(v) section 24 (issue of equipment interference warrants);\n(w) section 25 (modification of equipment interference warrants);\n(x) section 26 (issue of targeted examination warrants to intelligence services);\n(y) section 27 (bulk equipment interference: safeguards for journalistic material etc);\n(z) section 28 (exclusion of matters from legal proceedings etc: exceptions);\n(aa) section 29 (freedom of information: bodies dealing with security matters);\n(bb) the Schedule (disclosure powers).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1021/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:50.183779+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."
}