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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
RA Proof 20.7.2000
c. 23
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Part I
Chapter I
(b) in relation to a person providing a public telecommunications
service, means an interception warrant relating to the
interception of communications in the course of their
transmission by means of a telecommunication system used for
the purposes of that service.
13.—(1) There shall be a Technical Advisory Board consisting of such Technical
number of persons appointed by the Secretary of State as he may by order Advisory Board.
provide.
(2) The order providing for the membership of the Technical Advisory
Board must also make provision which is calculated to ensure—
(a) that the membership of the Technical Advisory Board includes
persons likely effectively to represent the interests of the persons
on whom obligations may be imposed under section 12;
(b) that the membership of the Board includes persons likely
effectively to represent the interests of the persons by or on
whose behalf applications for interception warrants may be
made;
(c) that such other persons (if any) as the Secretary of State thinks
fit may be appointed to be members of the Board; and
(d) that the Board is so constituted as to produce a balance between
the representation of the interests mentioned in paragraph (a)
and the representation of those mentioned in paragraph (b).
(3) The Secretary of State shall not make an order under this section
unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved
by a resolution of each House.
14.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that such Grants for
arrangements are in force as are necessary for securing that a person who interception costs.
provides—
(a) a postal service, or
(b) a telecommunications service,
receives such contribution as is, in the circumstances of that person’s case,
a fair contribution towards the costs incurred, or likely to be incurred, by
that person in consequence of the matters mentioned in subsection (2).
(2) Those matters are—
(a) in relation to a person providing a postal service, the issue of
interception warrants relating to communications transmitted
by means of that postal service;
(b) in relation to a person providing a telecommunications service,
the issue of interception warrants relating to communications
transmitted by means of a telecommunication system used for
the purposes of that service;
(c) in relation to each description of person, the imposition on that
person of obligations provided for by an order under section 12.
(3) For the purpose of complying with his duty under this section, the
Secretary of State may make arrangements for payments to be made out
of money provided by Parliament.