Intelligence Services Act 1994
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1994 c. 13 |
| Year | 1994 |
to obtain and provide information relating to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands; andto perform other tasks relating to the actions or intentions of such persons.in the interests of national security, with particular reference to the defence and foreign policies of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom; orin the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom; orin support of the prevention or detection of serious crime.(1) The operations of the Intelligence Service shall continue to be under the control of a Chief of that Service appointed by the Secretary of State.for that purpose;in the interests of national security;for the purpose of the prevention or detection of serious crime; orfor the purpose of any criminal proceedings; andthat the Intelligence Service does not take any action to further the interests of any United Kingdom political party.the disclosure of records subject to and in accordance with the the disclosure, subject to and in accordance with arrangements approved by the Secretary of State, of information to the Comptroller and Auditor General for the purposes of his functions.(4) The Chief of the Intelligence Service shall make an annual report on the work of the Intelligence Service to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State and may at any time report to either of them on any matter relating to its work.to monitor F33, make use of or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other emissions and any equipment producing such emissions and to obtain and provide information derived from or related to such emissions or equipment and from encrypted material; andlanguages, including terminology used for technical matters, andcryptography and other matters relating to the protection of information and other material,in the interests of national security, with particular reference to the defence and foreign policies of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom; orin the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom in relation to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands; orin support of the prevention or detection of serious crime.(3) In this Act the expression “GCHQ” refers to the Government Communications Headquarters and to any unit or part of a unit of the armed forces of the Crown which is for the time being required by the Secretary of State to assist the Government Communications Headquarters in carrying out its functions.(1) The operations of GCHQ shall continue to be under the control of a Director appointed by the Secretary of State.that there are arrangements for securing that no information is obtained by GCHQ except so far as necessary for the proper discharge of its functions and that no information is disclosed by it except so far as necessary for that purpose or for the purpose of any criminal proceedings; and
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