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Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25)
Part 3 — Authorisations for obtaining communications data
(c)
this Part has effect as if the designated senior officer of force 1 had the
power to grant an authorisation to officers of the collaborating police
force, and had other functions in relation to the authorisation, which
were the same as (and subject to no greater or lesser restrictions than)
the power and other functions which the designated senior officer of
the collaborating police force who would otherwise have dealt with the
authorisation would have had.
(4)
In a case falling within subsection (1)(b)(ii)—
(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 force 1, 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 the collaborating police force, and
(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.
(5)
In a case falling within subsection (1)(b)(iii), section 76(4)(b) has effect as if the
references to the relevant public authority were references to the collaborating
police force.
(6)
In this section—
“collaborating police force”, in relation to a police collaboration
agreement, means a police force (other than force 1) whose chief officer
of police is a party to the agreement,
“England and Wales police force” means—
(a) any police force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act
1996 (police forces in England and Wales outside London),
(b) the metropolitan police force, or
(c) the City of London police force,
“police collaboration agreement” has the same meaning as in section 78
(see subsection (6) of that section),
and references in this section to an England and Wales police force or a police
force include the National Crime Agency (and references to the chief officer of
police include the Director General of the National Crime Agency).
Further and supplementary provision
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Lawfulness of conduct authorised by this Part
(1)
Conduct is lawful for all purposes if—
(a) it is conduct in which any person is authorised to engage by an
authorisation or required to undertake by virtue of a notice given in
pursuance of an authorisation, and
(b) the conduct is in accordance with, or in pursuance of, the authorisation
or notice.
(2)
A person (whether or not the person so authorised or required) is not to be
subject to any civil liability in respect of conduct that—
(a) is incidental to, or is reasonably undertaken in connection with,
conduct that is lawful by virtue of subsection (1), and