Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2418

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2000 No. 2418

INVESTIGATORY POWERS

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000

	Made	7th September 2000
	Laid before Parliament	8th September 2000
	Coming into force	2nd October 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 46(4) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000[1], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Authorisations Extending to Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.

Relevant public authorities for all parts of the United Kingdom
    2. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the public authorities listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (being public authorities for the time being specified in Schedule 1 to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) are relevant public authorities for all parts of the United Kingdom.

    (2) Where there is an entry in column 2 against a particular authority, that authority is a relevant public authority for all parts of the United Kingdom only to the extent specified in that column.

Charles Clarke
Minister of State

Home Office
7th September 2000

SCHEDULEArticle 2

(1)	(2)
The National Criminal Intelligence Service
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
The Department of Health
The Home Office	The Immigration Service
The Department of Social Security
The Department of Trade and Industry
The Environment Agency
The Financial Services Authority
The Personal Investment Authority
The Post Office
The Health and Safety Executive
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order sets out the extent to which certain public authorities specified in Schedule 1 to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act") are to be relevant public authorities "for all parts of the United Kingdom" and are to be treated as being included in the list of public authorities in section 46(3) of the 2000 Act.

The effect of a public authority specified in Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act, being included in the list of public authorities in section 46(3), is that authorisations may be granted or renewed under sections 28 and 29 of the 2000 Act, by or in relation to that authority, where all the conduct to be authorised is likely to take place in Scotland.

Such authorisations may be granted or renewed under sections 28 and 29 where the authority is specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act and in relation to section 28 only where the authority is specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act.

Notes:

[1] 2000 c. 23.back

ISBN 0 11 099846 4

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