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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/13/2006-04-13</dc:identifier><dc:title>Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000</dc:title><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:date>2000-07-28</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2026-04-10</dc:modified><dct:valid>2006-04-13</dct:valid>
					
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