Private investigators
25.Paragraph 4(1) defines the activities covered as surveillance, inquiries or investigations carried out for the purpose of obtaining information about a person or about a person’s activities or whereabouts. Under Paragraph 4(2)-(10) the following activities are excluded:
market research activities;
activities exclusively concerned with a credit check;
the professional activities of practising solicitors and barristers;
the professional activities of practising accountants
the professional activities of journalists and broadcasters;
activities relating to reference to registers which are open to the public; registers or records to which a person has a right of access; and published works;
activities carried out with the knowledge or consent of the subject of the investigation;
activities of a person which are incidental to those of a security operative.