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 [F1the data protection legislation], or
(b)is prohibited by [F2any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016].
(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.
[F3(5)In this section, “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 20(2)(a) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 154(2) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)
F2Words in s. 20(2)(b) substituted (27.6.2018) by Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25), s. 272(1), Sch. 10 para. 22 (with Sch. 9 paras. 7, 8, 10); S.I. 2018/652, reg. 12(g)(iii)
F3S. 20(5) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 154(3) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)
Commencement Information
I1S. 20 in force at 24.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/3296, art. 2