Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

2000 CHAPTER 23

An Act to make provision for and about the interception of communications, the acquisition and disclosure of data relating to communications, the carrying out of surveillance, the use of covert human intelligence sources and the acquisition of the means by which electronic data protected by encryption or passwords may be decrypted or accessed; to provide for Commissioners and a tribunal with functions and jurisdiction in relation to those matters, to entries on and interferences with property or with wireless telegraphy and to the carrying out of their functions by the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Headquarters; and for connected purposes.

[28th July 2000]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act power to apply (with modifications) conferred (temp.) (25.3.2020) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), ss. 22(4), 87(1) (with ss. 22(7), 88-90) (and which affecting provision expires (25.3.2022) by virtue of Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 (with s. 90))

C2 Act modified (temp.) (25.3.2020) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), ss. 22(6), 87(1) (with ss. 22(7), 88-90) (and which affecting provision expires (25.3.2022) by virtue of Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 (with s. 90))

C3 Act expiry of earlier affecting provision 2020 c. 7, s. 22 (25.3.2022) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 (with s. 90)