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RA Proof 20.7.2000
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Part I
Chapter II
(a) it is conduct in which any person is authorised or required to
engage by an authorisation or notice granted or given under this
Chapter; and
(b) the conduct is in accordance with, or in pursuance of, the
authorisation or requirement.
(3) A person shall not be subject to any civil liability in respect of any
conduct of his which—
(a) is incidental to any conduct that is lawful by virtue of subsection
(2); and
(b) is not itself conduct an authorisation or warrant for which is
capable of being granted under a relevant enactment and might
reasonably have been expected to have been sought in the case
in question.
(4) In this Chapter “communications data” means any of the
following—
(a) any traffic data comprised in or attached to a communication
(whether by the sender or otherwise) for the purposes of any
postal service or telecommunication system by means of which
it is being or may be transmitted;
(b) any information which includes none of the contents of a
communication (apart from any information falling within
paragraph (a)) and is about the use made by any person—
(i) of any postal service or telecommunications service; or
(ii) in connection with the provision to or use by any
person of any telecommunications service, of any part of a
telecommunication system;
(c) any information not falling within paragraph (a) or (b) that is
held or obtained, in relation to persons to whom he provides the
service, by a person providing a postal service or
telecommunications service.
1994 c. 13.
1997 c. 50.
(5) In this section “relevant enactment” means—
(a) an enactment contained in this Act;
(b) section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (warrants for the
intelligence services); or
(c) an enactment contained in Part III of the Police Act 1997
(powers of the police and of customs officers).
(6) In this section “traffic data”, in relation to any communication,
means—
(a) any data identifying, or purporting to identify, any person,
apparatus or location to or from which the communication is or
may be transmitted,
(b) any data identifying or selecting, or purporting to identify or
select, apparatus through which, or by means of which, the
communication is or may be transmitted,
(c) any data comprising signals for the actuation of apparatus used
for the purposes of a telecommunication system for effecting (in
whole or in part) the transmission of any communication, and