Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
These documents relate to the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill which received Royal Assent on 25 April 2024.
The act will deliver the urgent, targeted changes needed to protect the British people from evolving threats.
The reforms will support the intelligence agencies to keep pace with a range of threats, against a backdrop of accelerating technological change that provides new opportunities for terrorists, hostile state actors, child abusers and criminal gangs.
Updating the 2016 act to reflect the current threat and changing technology landscape will ensure that our intelligence agencies can develop the necessary tools and capabilities to rapidly draw insights from vast quantities of data, allowing them to better understand and respond to threats to the UK.
The world-leading safeguards within the act will be maintained and enhanced.
The government has also published its response to the 2023 consultation on the Investigatory Powers Act notices regimes consultation.
Overarching documents
Bill factsheets
Impact assessments
Last updated 25 April 2024 + show all updates
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Collection page updated to reflect enactment.
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Link added to Parliamentary website.
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Added draft excerpts from codes of practice in order to inform debate and explain how some of the bill’s measures will be implemented in practice. Added a policy statement which details the proposed content for notification regulations to be made under clause 20 of the bill.
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Added Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: Keeling Schedule.
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Link to overarching documents page added.
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First published.