SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments and transitional provision relating to Part 1

Part 1Consequential amendments to Acts of Parliament

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23)

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Amend section 81 as follows.

2

In subsection (7) for “home civil service or diplomatic service” substitute “ statutory civil service (or any part of it) ”.

3

After subsection (7) insert—

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In subsection (7) “the statutory civil service” means—

a

the civil service within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (see section 1(4) of that Act), but

b

also includes the Government Communications Headquarters.