RIP ACT 2000 — UK: THE REGULATION OF INVESTIGATORY POWERS ACT 2000

✍ Scribed by Rico Calleja

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 37 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(00)06009-x

✦ Synopsis

It started out as a dog's breakfast. It has now completed its passage through the Commons and House of Lords, and received its Royal Assent on 28 July. As tempting as it is to complete the metaphor, there are those who concede that the Bill has been notably improved, the Confederation of British Industry amongst them. However, Lord Cope, who became a dab hand at summing the Bill up during the various stages of its ignominious journey through Parliament, has done so once again as the Bill now returns briefly to the Commons before becoming law -"It is still not a good Bill. It has been done in too much haste.