PART 1 GENERAL

1 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Matters Subject to Legal Privilege) Order 2010 and shall come into force on 18th February 2010.

2 Interpretation
1 In this Order—
“the 2000 Act” means the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000;
“matters subject to legal privilege” means (subject to paragraph (2)) matters to which section 98(2), (3) or (4) of the Police Act 1997 applies;
“private information” has the meaning given in section 26(10) of the 2000 Act; and
“source” means covert human intelligence source.
1997 c.50; section 91(1) has been amended by S.I. 1999/1747.
2 For the purposes of this Order—
(a) communications and items are not matters subject to legal privilege when they are in the possession of a person who is not entitled to possession of them, and
(b) communications and items held, or oral communications made, with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose are not matters subject to legal privilege.