LegalizeThe Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2010
Made: 25th February 2010
Coming into force: 6th April 2010
Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes the following Order—
1
This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2010 and shall come into force on 6th April 2010.
2
The code of practice entitled “Covert Surveillance and Property Interference”, laid before each House of Parliament in draft on 5th January 2010, relating to the carrying out of covert surveillance under Part 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and to interference with property or wireless telegraphy under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and Part 3 of the Police Act 1997, shall come into force on 6th April 2010.
Signed
David Hanson — Minister of State — 25th February 2010
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order brings into force the revised code of practice prepared under section 71 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 relating to the carrying out of covert surveillance under Part 2 of that Act and to interference with property or wireless telegraphy under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and Part 3 of the Police Act 1997. Under section 72(1) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, a person exercising any power or duty in relation to which provisions may be made by a code of practice under section 71 must, in doing so, have regard to the code’s provisions (as far as applicable).
The code of practice will be published by the Stationery Office Limited and copies may be obtained from The Stationery Office Bookshops. It will also be published on the Home Office website at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ripa/publication-search/ripa-cop/.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2000 c. 23.
[^f00002]: 1994 c. 13; section 5 has been amended by section 74 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23).
[^f00003]: 1997 c. 50.
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.