Surveillance Oversight Database

Annex 6: LIST OF BODIES WITH NON-RIPA POWERS (6.18 above)

Department

Mechanisms (non-RIPA)
Business Protection from Misleading Marketing
Regulations 2008

Department for
Business
Innovation and
Skills

Companies Act 1985
Consumer Credit Acts 1974, 1985

36B (1), 162,
174A

Consumer Protection Act 1987
Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading
Regulations 2008
Copyright Design and Patents Act 1974

21(1)(b)(d)
16(a)
107A (2),
198A (2)
225-227

Companies Act 1985

434 (2); 444
(1); 447 (2)
(3)

Competition Act 1998
Enterprise Act 2002 (Soon to be replaced by the
Consumer Rights Bill)
Consumer Credit Act 1974
Business Protection from Misleading Marketing
Regulations 2008

Consumer Credit Acts 1974, 1985

Financial Services & Markets Act 2000
Pensions Act 2004
Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005
Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and
Investigative) Regulations 2005

Ministry of
Justice

18 (1), (2);
29(4)(5)(6)

Enterprise Act 2002

Fair Trading Acts 1973, 1986

Financial
Conduct
Authority

21 (1) , 23(1)
434 (2); 444
(1); 447 (2)
(3)

Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988

Competition &
Markets
Authority

Section

Prison Rule 35
323

225-227

21, 23
29(1)
36B (1), 162,
174A
16(1)(2),
131E(1), 165,
165A, 171175, 218A221, 305
75, 192
67,68 & 73
12(?)