Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25)
Part 3 — Authorisations for obtaining communications data
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(c)
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may be varied by a subsequent collaboration agreement, and
may be brought to an end by agreement between the parties to it.
(3)
A person who makes a collaboration agreement must—
(a) publish the agreement, or
(b) publish the fact that the agreement has been made and such other
details about it as the person considers appropriate.
(4)
A relevant public authority may enter into a collaboration agreement as a
supplying authority, a subscribing authority or both (whether or not it would
have power to do so apart from this section).
(5)
The Secretary of State may, after consulting a relevant public authority, direct
it to enter into a collaboration agreement if the Secretary of State considers that
entering into the agreement would assist the effective exercise by the authority,
or another relevant public authority, of its functions under this Part.
(6)
A code of practice under Schedule 7 must include guidance to relevant public
authorities about collaboration agreements.
(7)
The guidance must include guidance about the criteria the Secretary of State
will use in considering whether a collaboration agreement is appropriate for a
relevant public authority.
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Police collaboration agreements
(1)
This section applies if—
(a) the chief officer of police of an England and Wales police force (“force
1”) has entered into a police collaboration agreement for the purposes
of a collaborating police force’s functions under this Part, and
(b) under the terms of the agreement—
(i) a designated senior officer of force 1 is permitted to grant
authorisations to officers of the collaborating police force,
(ii) officers of force 1 are permitted to be granted authorisations by
a designated senior officer of the collaborating police force, or
(iii) officers of force 1 act as single points of contact for officers of the
collaborating police force.
(2)
The persons by whom, or to whom, authorisations may be granted (or who
may act as single points of contact) under a police collaboration agreement are
additional to those persons by whom, or to whom, authorisations would
otherwise be granted under this Part (or who could otherwise act as single
points of contact).
(3)
In a case falling within subsection (1)(b)(i)—
(a) section 61 has effect as if—
(i) in subsection (2) the reference to an officer of the authority were
a reference to an officer of the collaborating police force, and
(ii) in subsection (6)(b)(ii) the reference to an officer of the same
relevant public authority as an authorised officer included a
reference to an officer of force 1,
(b) section 63(3)(d) has effect as if the reference to the relevant public
authority concerned were a reference to force 1 and the collaborating
police force, and