Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 3 (ss. 91-108) amended (S.) (29.9.2000) by 2000 asp 11, s. 24(2)(b) (with s. 30); S.S.I. 2000/341, art. 2
C2Pt. 3: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (1.10.2002) by Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), s. 19(2)(b); S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(b)(v)
C3Pt. 3 modified (1.4.2004) by The Independent Police Complaints Commission (Investigatory Powers) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/815), arts. 1(1), 2 (as amended (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 10(5) (with reg. 37))
(1)In section 97 “confidential journalistic material” means—
(a)material acquired or created for the purposes of journalism which—
(i)is in the possession of persons who acquired or created it for those purposes,
(ii)is held subject to an undertaking, restriction or obligation of the kind mentioned in section 99(3), and
(iii)has been continuously held (by one or more persons) subject to such an undertaking, restriction or obligation since it was first acquired or created for the purposes of journalism, and
(b)communications as a result of which information is acquired for the purposes of journalism and held as mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii).
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1), a person who receives material, or acquires information, from someone who intends that the recipient shall use it for the purposes of journalism is to be taken to have acquired it for those purposes.