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(1)The Secretary of State must appoint a person to review the operation of sections 6 to 11 (the “reviewer”).
(2)The reviewer must carry out a review of the operation of sections 6 to 11 in respect of the period of five years beginning with the day on which section 6 comes into force.
(3)The review must be completed as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the period to which the review relates.
(4)As soon as reasonably practicable after completing a review under this section, the reviewer must send to the Secretary of State a report on its outcome.
(5)On receiving a report under subsection (4), the Secretary of State must lay a copy of it before Parliament.
(6)Before laying a copy of a report before Parliament under subsection (5), the Secretary of State may, after consulting the reviewer, exclude from the copy any part of the report that would, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, be damaging to the interests of national security if it were included in the copy laid before Parliament.
(7)The Secretary of State may pay to the reviewer—
(a)expenses incurred by the reviewer in carrying out functions under this section, and
(b)such allowances as the Secretary of State determines.
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