SCHEDULE 3 Exceptions to section 56
Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (2016 c 25) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 3 Exceptions to section 56

Section 56

Introductory

1

This Schedule contains—

(a)     exceptions to the exclusion by section 56(1) of certain matters from legal proceedings, and

(b)     limitations on those exceptions where that exclusion will still apply.

Disclosures of lawfully intercepted communications

2

(1)     Section 56(1)(a) does not prohibit the disclosure of any content of a communication, or any secondary data obtained from a communication, if the interception of that communication was lawful by virtue of any of the following provisions—

(a)     sections 6(1)(c) and 44 to 52;

(b)     sections 1(5)(c), 3 and 4 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000;

(c)     section 1(2)(b) and (3) of the Interception of Communications Act 1985.

(2)     Where any disclosure is proposed to be, or has been, made on the grounds that it is authorised by sub-paragraph (1), section 56(1) does not prohibit the doing of anything in, or for the purposes of, so much of any proceedings as relates to the question whether that disclosure is or was so authorised.

Disclosures of convictions for certain offences

3

Section 56(1)(b) does not prohibit the doing of anything that discloses any conduct

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