http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/13/2010-01-25Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000An Act to make provision for and about the interception of communications, the acquisition and disclosure of data relating to communications, the carrying out of surveillance, the use of covert human intelligence sources and the acquisition of the means by which electronic data protected by encryption or passwords may be decrypted or accessed; to provide for Commissioners and a tribunal with functions and jurisdiction in relation to those matters, to entries on and interferences with property or with wireless telegraphy and to the carrying out of their functions by the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Headquarters; and for connected purposes.2000-07-28texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-302010-01-25 Part I CommunicationsChapter I Interception Interception capability and costs Technical Advisory Board.131There shall be a Technical Advisory Board consisting of such number of persons appointed by the Secretary of State as he may by order provide.2The order providing for the membership of the Technical Advisory Board must also make provision which is calculated to ensure—athat the membership of the Technical Advisory Board includes persons likely effectively to represent the interests of the persons on whom obligations may be imposed under section 12;bthat the membership of the Board includes persons likely effectively to represent the interests of the persons by or on whose behalf applications for interception warrants may be made;cthat such other persons (if any) as the Secretary of State thinks fit may be appointed to be members of the Board; anddthat the Board is so constituted as to produce a balance between the representation of the interests mentioned in paragraph (a) and the representation of those mentioned in paragraph (b).3The Secretary of State shall not make an order under this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.
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