{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-2000/section-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-2000/section-82.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/23",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-2000",
  "path": "section/82",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Amendments, repeals and savings etc.",
  "text": "(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 4 (amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act) shall have effect with the amendments set out in that Schedule.\n(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 5 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that nothing in this Act . . .affects any power conferred on a postal operator (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011) by or under any enactment to open, detain or delay any postal packet or to deliver any such packet to a person other than the person to whom it is addressed.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(3) repealed (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(2), Sch. 2 (with art. 4(11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(3) substituted (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 135(3) (with art. 4(8))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 82(3) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), ss. 91, 93(3), Sch. 12 para. 160; S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 82(4)-(6) omitted (27.6.2018) by virtue of Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25), s. 272(1), Sch. 10 para. 50 (with Sch. 9 paras. 7, 8, 10); S.I. 2018/652, reg. 12(g)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 82 wholly in force; s. 82 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 83(2); s. 82(1)(2) in force for certain purposes at 25.9.2000 and s. 82 in force to the extent that it is not already in force at 2.10.2000 by S.I. 2000/2543, arts. 2, 3 (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 5, 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/82",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:47.503938+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."
}