56 Exclusion of matters from legal proceedings etc

56  Exclusion of matters from legal proceedings etc

(1)     No evidence may be adduced, question asked, assertion or disclosure made or other thing done in, for the purposes of or in connection with any legal proceedings or Inquiries Act proceedings which (in any manner)—

(a)     discloses, in circumstances from which its origin in interception-related conduct may be inferred—

(i)     any content of an intercepted communication, or

(ii)     any secondary data obtained from a communication, or

(b)     tends to suggest that any interception-related conduct has or may have occurred or may be going to occur.

This is subject to Schedule 3 (exceptions).

(2)     “Interception-related conduct” means—

(a)     conduct by a person within subsection (3) that is, or in the absence of any lawful authority would be,

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