Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014

5Meaning of “telecommunications service”

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In section 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (meaning of “interception” etc), after subsection (8) insert—

(8A)For the purposes of the definition of “telecommunications service” in subsection (1), the cases in which a service is to be taken to consist in the provision of access to, and of facilities for making use of, a telecommunication system include any case where a service consists in or includes facilitating the creation, management or storage of communications transmitted, or that may be transmitted, by means of such a system.