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Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (c. 27)
(ii)
(c)
(5)
make supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional,
transitory or saving provision,
(iii) make different provision for different purposes,
may, so far as relating to provision about codes of practice, be exercised
in particular by modifying the effect of sections 71 and 72 of the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (codes of practice in
relation to certain powers and duties).
A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 1 is not to be
made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a
resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Investigatory powers
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Grounds for issuing warrants and obtaining data
(1)
Section 5 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (power to issue
necessary and proportionate interception warrants in interests of national
security, to prevent or detect serious crime or to safeguard the UK’s economic
well-being) is amended as set out in subsection (2).
(2)
In subsection (3)(c) (economic well-being of the UK), after “purpose” insert “,
in circumstances appearing to the Secretary of State to be relevant to the
interests of national security,”.
(3)
Section 22 of that Act (power to obtain communications data in interests of
national security, to prevent or detect serious crime, in interests of the UK’s
economic well-being and for other specified purposes) is amended as set out in
subsection (4).
(4)
In subsection (2)(c) (economic well-being of the UK), after “United Kingdom”
insert “so far as those interests are also relevant to the interests of national
security”.
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Extra-territoriality in Part 1 of RIPA
(1)
Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (communications) is
amended as follows.
(2)
In section 11 (implementation of interception warrants), after subsection (2)
insert—
“(2A)
A copy of a warrant may be served under subsection (2) on a person
outside the United Kingdom (and may relate to conduct outside the
United Kingdom).
(2B)
Service under subsection (2) of a copy of a warrant on a person outside
the United Kingdom may (in addition to electronic or other means of
service) be effected in any of the following ways—
(a) by serving it at the person’s principal office within the United
Kingdom or, if the person has no such office in the United
Kingdom, at any place in the United Kingdom where the person
carries on business or conducts activities;
(b) if the person has specified an address in the United Kingdom as
one at which the person, or someone on the person’s behalf, will