Section 251 Amendments of the Intelligence Services Act 1994I1

(1)

The Intelligence Services Act 1994 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 3 (the Government Communications Headquarters)—

(a)

in subsection (1)(a), after “monitor” insert “ , make use of ”, and

(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. ”

(3)

In section 5 (warrants: general)—

(a)

in subsection (2), omit “, subject to subsection (3) below,”,

(b)

omit subsection (3), and

(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), ”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 251 in force at 13.2.2017 by S.I. 2017/137, reg. 2(r)