20Disclosure and the intelligence services: supplementary provisionsU.K.
(1)The provisions of section 19 (disclosure and use of information) do not affect the duties with respect to the obtaining or disclosure of information imposed—
(a)on the Director-General of the Security Service, by section 2(2) of the Security Service Act 1989;
(b)on the Chief of the Intelligence Service, by section 2(2) of the Intelligence Services Act 1994;
(c)on the Director of GCHQ, by section 4(2) of that Act.
(2)Nothing in that section authorises a disclosure that—
(a)contravenes the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29), or
(b)is prohibited by Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23).
(3)The provisions of that section are without prejudice to any rule of law authorising the obtaining, use or disclosure of information by any of the intelligence services.
(4)Schedule 1 contains amendments consequential on that section.
Commencement Information
I1S. 20 in force at 24.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/3296, art. 2