33 Effect of code
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (2012 c 9) | Legislation

Enforcement and Commissioner

33  Effect of code

(1)     A relevant authority must have regard to the surveillance camera code when exercising any functions to which the code relates.

(2)     A failure on the part of any person to act in accordance with any provision of the surveillance camera code does not of itself make that person liable to criminal or civil proceedings.

(3)     The surveillance camera code is admissible in evidence in any such proceedings.

(4)     A court or tribunal may, in particular, take into account a failure by a relevant authority to have regard to the surveillance camera code in determining a question in any such proceedings.

(5)     In this section “relevant authority” means—

(a)     a local authority

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