SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 7Codes of practice
Effect of codes
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1
A person must have regard to a code when exercising any functions to which the code relates.
2
A failure on the part of a person to comply with any provision of a code does not of itself make that person liable to criminal or civil proceedings.
3
A code is admissible in evidence in any such proceedings.
4
A court or tribunal may, in particular, take into account a failure by a person to have regard to a code in determining a question in any such proceedings.
5
A supervisory authority exercising functions by virtue of this Act may take into account a failure by a person to have regard to a code in determining a question which arises in connection with the exercise of those functions.
6
In this paragraph “supervisory authority” means—
a
the Investigatory Powers Commissioner or any other Judicial Commissioner,
b
the Information Commissioner, or
c
the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.