Part I Communications
Chapter I Interception
Interception capability and costs
14 Grants for interception costs.
1
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that such arrangements are in force as are necessary for securing that a person who provides—
a
a postal service, or
b
a telecommunications service,
receives such contribution as is, in the circumstances of that person’s case, a fair contribution towards the costs incurred, or likely to be incurred, by that person in consequence of the matters mentioned in subsection (2).
2
Those matters are—
a
in relation to a person providing a postal service, the issue of interception warrants relating to communications transmitted by means of that postal service;
b
in relation to a person providing a telecommunications service, the issue of interception warrants relating to communications transmitted by means of a telecommunication system used for the purposes of that service;
c
in relation to each description of person, the imposition on that person of obligations provided for by an order under section 12.
3
For the purpose of complying with his duty under this section, the Secretary of State may make arrangements for payments to be made out of money provided by Parliament.