http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111490372/article/2

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Covert Surveillance and Property Interference: Code of Practice) Order 2010

Local Government

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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2010-11-19

INVESTIGATORY POWERS

2010-04-06

This Order brings into force the revised code of practice prepared under section 71 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 relating to the carrying out of covert surveillance under Part 2 of that Act and to interference with property or wireless telegraphy under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and Part 3 of the Police Act 1997. Under section 72(1) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, a person exercising any power or duty in relation to which provisions may be made by a code of practice under section 71 must, in doing so, have regard to the code’s provisions (as far as applicable).