Chapter 3Other provisions about interception
- Section 53Safeguards relating to retention and disclosure of material
(1) The issuing authority must ensure, in relation to every targeted interception warrant or mutual assistance warrant issued by that authority, that arrangements are in force for securing…
- Section 54Safeguards relating to disclosure of material overseas
(1) The issuing authority must ensure, in relation to every targeted interception warrant or mutual assistance warrant issued by that authority, that arrangements are in force for securing…
- Section 55Additional safeguards for items subject to legal privilege
(1) This section applies where an item subject to legal privilege which has been intercepted in accordance with a targeted interception warrant or mutual assistance warrant is retained,…
- Section 56Exclusion of matters from legal proceedings etc.
(1) No evidence may be adduced, question asked, assertion or disclosure made or other thing done in, for the purposes of or in connection with any legal proceedings…
- Section 57Duty not to make unauthorised disclosures
(1) A person to whom this section applies must not make an unauthorised disclosure to another person. (2) A person makes an unauthorised disclosure for the purposes of…
- Section 58Section 57: meaning of “excepted disclosure”
(1) For the purposes of section 57 a disclosure made in relation to a warrant is an “excepted disclosure” if it falls within any of the Heads set…
- Section 59Offence of making unauthorised disclosures
(1) A person who fails to comply with section 57(1) commits an offence. (2) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section is liable— (a)…
- Section 60Part 2: interpretation
(1) In this Part— ... “intercepting authority” is to be read in accordance with section 18 ; “international mutual assistance agreement” has the meaning given by section 10(3)…
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Text as at 7 October 2026.
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