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Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
RA Proof 20.7.2000
c. 23
73
Part IV
Minister considers necessary (in addition to the ordinary Surveillance
Commissioners) for the purpose of providing the Chief Surveillance
Commissioner with assistance under this section.
(2) A person shall not be appointed as an Assistant Surveillance
Commissioner unless he holds or has held office as—
(a) a judge of the Crown Court or a Circuit judge;
(b) a sheriff in Scotland; or
(c) a county court judge in Northern Ireland.
(3) The Chief Surveillance Commissioner may—
(a) require any ordinary Surveillance Commissioner or any
Assistant Surveillance Commissioner to provide him with
assistance in carrying out his functions under section 62(1); or
(b) require any Assistant Surveillance Commissioner to provide him
with assistance in carrying out his equivalent functions under
any Act of the Scottish Parliament in relation to any provisions
of such an Act that are equivalent to those of Part II of this Act.
(4) The assistance that may be provided under this section includes—
(a) the conduct on behalf of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner of
the review of any matter; and
(b) the making of a report to the Chief Surveillance Commissioner
about the matter reviewed.
(5) Subsections (3) to (8) of section 91 of the Police Act 1997 1997 c. 50.
(Commissioners) apply in relation to a person appointed under this
section as they apply in relation to a person appointed under that section.
64.—(1) Anything authorised or required by or under any enactment Delegation of
or any provision of an Act of the Scottish Parliament to be done by a Commissioners’
relevant Commissioner may be done by any member of the staff of that functions.
Commissioner who is authorised for the purpose (whether generally or
specifically) by that Commissioner.
(2) In this section “relevant Commissioner” means the Interception of
Communications
Commissioner,
the
Intelligence
Services
Commissioner, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner for Northern
Ireland or any Surveillance Commissioner or Assistant Surveillance
Commissioner.
The Tribunal
65.—(1) There shall, for the purpose of exercising the jurisdiction The Tribunal.
conferred on them by this section, be a tribunal consisting of such number
of members as Her Majesty may by Letters Patent appoint.
(2) The jurisdiction of the Tribunal shall be—
(a) to be the only appropriate tribunal for the purposes of section 7
of the Human Rights Act 1998 in relation to any proceedings 1988 c. 42.
under subsection (1)(a) of that section (proceedings for actions
incompatible with Convention rights) which fall within
subsection (3) of this section;
(b) to consider and determine any complaints made to them which,
in accordance with subsection (4), are complaints for which the
Tribunal is the appropriate forum;