The Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018

Citation and commencement U.K.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018.

(2) This regulation and regulation 2 come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

(3) The following provisions of these Regulations come into force on 1st November 2018—

(a) regulation 3;

(b) regulation 4 for the purposes of regulations 8 to 10;

(c) regulations 8 and 9;

(d) regulation 10 for the purposes of paragraphs 22, 23 and 27(b) and (c) of Schedule 1;

(e) regulation 11 for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2;

(f) paragraphs 22, 23 and 27(b) and (c) of Schedule 1;

(g) paragraph 2 of Schedule 2.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the following provisions of these Regulations come into force on the day that section 61(1) of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 comes into force—

(a) regulation 4 for all remaining purposes;

(b) regulations 5 to 7;

(c) regulations 10 and 11 for all remaining purposes;

(d) Schedule 1 so far as not already in force;

(e) paragraph 1 of Schedule 2.

(5) Where section 61(1) of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 comes into force on a day only for a particular purpose or purposes specified in regulations under section 272(1) of that Act, the provisions specified in paragraph (4) come into force on that day only for that purpose or (as the case may be) those purposes.