Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2418

      The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2000 No. 2418

INVESTIGATORY POWERS

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000

  Made 7th September 2000 
  Laid before Parliament 8th September 2000 
  Coming into force 2nd October 2000 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 46(4) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000[1], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.

Relevant public authorities for all parts of the United Kingdom
    
2.  - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the public authorities listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (being public authorities for the time being specified in Schedule 1 to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) are relevant public authorities for all parts of the United Kingdom.

    (2) Where there is an entry in column 2 against a particular authority, that authority is a relevant public authority for all parts of the United Kingdom only to the extent specified in that column.


Charles Clarke
Minister of State

Home Office
7th September 2000



SCHEDULE
Article 2

(1) (2)
The National Criminal Intelligence Service  
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue  
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions  
The Department of Health  
The Home Office The Immigration Service
The Department of Social Security  
The Department of Trade and Industry  
The Environment Agency  
The Financial Services Authority  
The Personal Investment Authority  
The Post Office  
The Health and Safety Executive  
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain  



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order sets out the extent to which certain public authorities specified in Schedule 1 to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act") are to be relevant public authorities "for all parts of the United Kingdom" and are to be treated as being included in the list of public authorities in section 46(3) of the 2000 Act.

The effect of a public authority specified in Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act, being included in the list of public authorities in section 46(3), is that authorisations may be granted or renewed under sections 28 and 29 of the 2000 Act, by or in relation to that authority, where all the conduct to be authorised is likely to take place in Scotland.

Such authorisations may be granted or renewed under sections 28 and 29 where the authority is specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act and in relation to section 28 only where the authority is specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act.


Notes:

[1] 2000 c. 23.back



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