Part 1Digital Markets
Chapter 6Investigatory powers etc and compliance reports
Investigatory powers etc
I177Amendments to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001
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The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 is amended as follows.
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In section 50 (additional powers of seizure from premises), at the end insert—
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Without prejudice to any power conferred by this section to take a copy of any document, nothing in this section, so far as it has effect by reference to the power to take copies of, or extracts from, information under section 75(2)(h) of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, is to be taken to confer any power to seize any information.
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In section 63 (powers of seizure: copies), in subsection (1), at the end insert—
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In section 65 (meaning of “legal privilege”), after subsection (3A) insert—
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In relation to property which has been seized in exercise, or purported exercise, of—
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so much of any power of seizure conferred by section 50 as is exercisable by reference to that power,
references in this Part to an item subject to legal privilege are to be read as references to a privileged communication within the meaning of section 81 (privileged communications) of that Act.
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In Part 1 of Schedule 1 (powers of seizure to which section 50 of that Act applies), at the end insert—