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.