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(1)In this Part—
“authorisation” means an authorisation [F1under section 60A, 61 or 61A] [F2(including sections 61 and 61A as modified by sections 78 and 80)],
“designated senior officer”—
“filtering arrangements” means any arrangements under section 67(1),
“officer”, in relation to a relevant public authority, means a person holding an office, rank or position with that authority,
“relevant public authority” means a public authority which is a relevant public authority for the purposes of this Part by virtue of section 70(2) or 73(1).
(2)In this Part “local authority” means—
(a)a district or county council in England,
(b)a London borough council,
(c)the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority,
(d)the Council of the Isles of Scilly,
(e)a county council or county borough council in Wales,
(f)a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, and
(g)a district council in Northern Ireland.
[F5(2A)In this Part, “serious crime” means, in addition to crime which falls within paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of “serious crime” in section 263(1), crime where the offence, or one of the offences, which is or would be constituted by the conduct concerned is—
(a)an offence for which an individual who has reached the age of 18 (or, in relation to Scotland or Northern Ireland, 21) is capable of being sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 months or more (disregarding any enactment prohibiting or restricting the imprisonment of individuals who have no previous convictions), or
(b)an offence—
(i)by a person who is not an individual, or
(ii)which involves, as an integral part of it, the sending of a communication or a breach of a person’s privacy.]
(3)See also—
section 261 (telecommunications definitions),
section 262 (postal definitions),
section 263 (general definitions),
section 265 (index of defined expressions).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 86(1) substituted (5.2.2019) by The Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1123), reg. 1(4)(d)(5), Sch. 1 para. 21(2)(a) (see S.I. 2019/174, reg. 2(c))
F2Words in s. 86(1) inserted (17.5.2019) by The Communications Data Acquisition Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/939), regs. 1(2), 5
F3Words in s. 86(1) omitted (5.2.2019) by virtue of The Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1123), reg. 1(4)(d)(5), Sch. 1 para. 21(2)(b)(i) (see S.I. 2019/174, reg. 2(c))
F4Word in s. 86(1) omitted (5.2.2019) by virtue of The Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1123), reg. 1(4)(d)(5), Sch. 1 para. 21(2)(b)(ii) (see S.I. 2019/174, reg. 2(c))
F5S. 86(2A) inserted (5.2.2019) by The Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1123), reg. 1(4)(d)(5), Sch. 1 para. 21(3) (see S.I. 2019/174, reg. 2(c))
Commencement Information
I1S. 86 in force at 5.2.2019 by S.I. 2019/174, reg. 2(d)
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