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RA Proof 20.7.2000
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Part I
Chapter I
(e) every person employed by or for the purposes of a police force;
(f) persons providing postal services or employed for the purposes
of any business of providing such a service;
(g) persons providing public telecommunications services or
employed for the purposes of any business of providing such
a service;
(h) persons having control of the whole or any part of a
telecommunication system located wholly or partly in the
United Kingdom.
(3) Those matters are—
(a) the existence and contents of the warrant and of any section 8(4)
certificate in relation to the warrant;
(b) the details of the issue of the warrant and of any renewal or
modification of the warrant or of any such certificate;
(c) the existence and contents of any requirement to provide
assistance with giving effect to the warrant;
(d) the steps taken in pursuance of the warrant or of any such
requirement; and
(e) everything in the intercepted material, together with any related
communications data.
(4) A person who makes a disclosure to another of anything that he is
required to keep secret under this section shall be guilty of an offence and
liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding five years or to a fine, or to both;
(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory
maximum, or to both.
(5) In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section
in respect of any disclosure, it shall be a defence for that person to show
that he could not reasonably have been expected, after first becoming
aware of the matter disclosed, to take steps to prevent the disclosure.
(6) In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section
in respect of any disclosure, it shall be a defence for that person to
show that—
(a) the disclosure was made by or to a professional legal adviser in
connection with the giving, by the adviser to any client of his, of
advice about the effect of provisions of this Chapter; and
(b) the person to whom or, as the case may be, by whom it was made
was the client or a representative of the client.
(7) In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section
in respect of any disclosure, it shall be a defence for that person to show
that the disclosure was made by a legal adviser—
(a) in contemplation of, or in connection with, any legal
proceedings; and
(b) for the purposes of those proceedings.
(8) Neither subsection (6) nor subsection (7) applies in the case of a
disclosure made with a view to furthering any criminal purpose.