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Statutory Instruments
INVESTIGATORY POWERS
Made
10th October 2000
Laid before Parliament
16th October 2000
Coming into force
6th November 2000
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 45(4) and (5) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Cancellation of Authorisations) Regulations 2000, and shall come into force on 6th November 2000.
2.-(1) Where any duty imposed by section 45 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000(1) would otherwise fall on a person who is no longer available to perform it, that duty is to be performed by-
(a)the person, if any, appointed for the purpose of these Regulations in accordance with paragraph (2);
(b)where no such person has been appointed, the person, if any, who holds the same office, rank or position in the same public authority as was held by the person who is no longer available and who has taken over that person's responsibilities or most of them.
(2) The person making an appointment for the purpose of these Regulations, and the person appointed, must each be a person holding the same office, rank or position (or a more senior one) in the same public authority as was held by the person who is no longer available.
Charles Clarke
Minister of State
Home Office
10th October 2000
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 45 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 imposes a duty on a number of persons to cancel authorisations under Part II of the Act, provided certain conditions are met.
These Regulations address the case where the duty falls on a person who is no longer available to perform it. Regulation 2(1)(b) provides for the duty to fall instead on the person who has taken over most of that person's responsibilities. There is also a power in regulation 2(1)(a) to appoint a person for this specific purpose, which may be needed where the application of regulation 2(1)(b) is uncertain or inappropriate in a particular case.
Where section 45 imposes a duty to cancel on two persons, and one of those persons remains available, neither the Act nor the Regulations relieve the duty imposed on him.
