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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference – Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2018 No. 54
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force the revised code of practice issued under section 24 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000 relating to covert surveillance under that Act and interference with property or wireless telegraphy under Part III of the Police Act 1997. A person carrying out a function to which the code applies must, in doing so, have regard to the provisions of the code to the extent that they are applicable.
The revised code of practice replaces the code of practice on covert surveillance and property interference issued by the Scottish Ministers on 28th November 2014 and brought into force on 2nd February 2015.
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