{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/31",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Relationship between security duties and certain other duties etc",
  "text": "After section 105W of the Communications Act 2003 insert—\nRelationship between security duties and certain other duties etc\n105X (1) A security duty imposed on a provider of a public electronic communications network or a public electronic communications service does not apply in so far as compliance with the duty would—\n(a) result in a failure by the provider to comply with a duty or prohibition imposed by or under an enactment mentioned in section 105A(4);\n(b) prevent the provider from giving effect to a warrant or authorisation that has been issued or given under an enactment mentioned in section 105A(4);\n(c) prevent the provider from providing a person with assistance in giving effect to a warrant or authorisation that has been issued or given under an enactment mentioned in section 105A(4); or\n(d) prevent the provider from providing a person with assistance in exercising any power conferred by or under prison rules.\n(2) In this section—\n“prison rules” has the same meaning as in section 105A;\n“security duty” means a duty imposed by or under—\nsection 96C as applied by section 105S; or\nany of sections 105A to 105D, 105I to 105K, 105L(6), (7)(c) and (8), 105N(2)(a), 105O and 105V.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 1.10.2022 by S.I. 2022/931, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/31/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:58:52.903734+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}