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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
RA Proof 20.7.2000
c. 23
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Part II
(a) the reference to a person having the right to use a vehicle does
not, in relation to a motor vehicle, include a reference to a
person whose right to use the vehicle derives only from his
having paid, or undertaken to pay, for the use of the vehicle and
its driver for a particular journey; and
(b) the reference to premises occupied or used by any person for
residential purposes or otherwise as living accommodation does
not include a reference to so much of any premises as constitutes
any common area to which he has or is allowed access in
connection with his use or occupation of any accommodation.
(8) In this section—
“premises” includes any vehicle or moveable structure and any other
place whatever, whether or not occupied as land;
“vehicle” includes any vessel, aircraft or hovercraft.
Part III
Investigation of electronic data protected by encryption etc.
Power to require disclosure
Notices requiring
49.—(1) This section applies where any protected information—
disclosure.
(a) has come into the possession of any person by means of the
exercise of a statutory power to seize, detain, inspect, search or
otherwise to interfere with documents or other property, or is
likely to do so;
(b) has come into the possession of any person by means of the
exercise of any statutory power to intercept communications, or
is likely to do so;
(c) has come into the possession of any person by means of the
exercise of any power conferred by an authorisation under
section 22(3) or under Part II, or as a result of the giving of a
notice under section 22(4), or is likely to do so;
(d) has come into the possession of any person as a result of having
been provided or disclosed in pursuance of any statutory duty
(whether or not one arising as a result of a request for
information), or is likely to do so; or
(e) has, by any other lawful means not involving the exercise of
statutory powers, come into the possession of any of the
intelligence services, the police or the customs and excise, or is
likely so to come into the possession of any of those services, the
police or the customs and excise.
(2) If any person with the appropriate permission under Schedule 2
believes, on reasonable grounds—
(a) that a key to the protected information is in the possession of
any person,
(b) that the imposition of a disclosure requirement in respect of the
protected information is—
(i) necessary on grounds falling within subsection (3), or
(ii) necessary for the purpose of securing the effective
exercise or proper performance by any public authority of
any statutory power or statutory duty,