Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25)
Part 9 — Miscellaneous and general provisions
Chapter 2 — General
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(9)
“Public telecommunication system” means a telecommunication system
located in the United Kingdom—
(a) by means of which any public telecommunications service is provided,
or
(b) which consists of parts of any other telecommunication system by
means of which any such service is provided.
(10)
“Telecommunications operator” means a person who—
(a) offers or provides a telecommunications service to persons in the
United Kingdom, or
(b) controls or provides a telecommunication system which is (wholly or
partly)—
(i) in the United Kingdom, or
(ii) controlled from the United Kingdom.
(11)
“Telecommunications service” means any service that consists in the provision
of access to, and of facilities for making use of, any telecommunication system
(whether or not one provided by the person providing the service).
(12)
For the purposes of subsection (11), the cases in which a service is to be taken
to consist in the provision of access to, and of facilities for making use of, a
telecommunication system include any case where a service consists in or
includes facilitating the creation, management or storage of communications
transmitted, or that may be transmitted, by means of such a system.
(13)
“Telecommunication system” means a system (including the apparatus
comprised in it) that exists (whether wholly or partly in the United Kingdom
or elsewhere) for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of
communications by any means involving the use of electrical or
electromagnetic energy.
(14)
“Private telecommunication system” means any telecommunication system
which—
(a) is not a public telecommunication system,
(b) is attached, directly or indirectly, to a public telecommunication system
(whether or not for the purposes of the communication in question),
and
(c) includes apparatus which is both located in the United Kingdom and
used (with or without other apparatus) for making the attachment to
that public telecommunication system.
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(1)
Postal definitions
The definitions in this section have effect for the purposes of this Act.
Communication
(2)
“Communication”, in relation to a postal operator or postal service (but not in
the definition of “postal service” in this section), includes anything transmitted
by a postal service.
Communications data
(3)
“Communications data”, in relation to a postal operator or postal service,
means—