BRITISH INTELLIGENCE-RELATED LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Intelligence Services Act 1994 (c. 13)

Here you can browse a summary (the Long Title and Arrangement of Sections) and publishing details for the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (c. 13). Full details of how to order publications from The Stationery Office, including lists of agents and stockists in the UK and world wide, are available. The complete Act comprises 16 printed pages at £3.80 pounds sterling and is published by The Stationery Office Ltd as ISBN 0 10 541394 1


Intelligence Services Act 1994 (c. 13) 
 
The Act is introduced by the Long Title which states:
"An Act to make provision about the Secret Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Headquarters, including provision for the issue of warrants and authorisations enabling certain actions to be taken and for the issue of such warrants and authorisations to be kept under review; to make further provision about warrants issued on applications by the Security Service; to establish a procedure for the investigation of complaints about the Secret Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Headquarters; to make provision for the establishment of an Intelligence and Security Committee to scrutinise all three of those bodies; and for connected purposes."
 

The Arrangement of Sections shows the contents of the Act.

Arrangement of Sections

 [Link to Schedules]

 

The Secret Intelligence Service

1. The Secret Intelligence Service.
2. The Chief of the Intelligence Service.

GCHQ

3. The Government Communications Headquarters.
4. The Director of GCHQ.

Authorisation of certain actions

5. Warrants: general.
6. Warrants: procedure and duration, etc.
7. Authorisation of acts outside the British Islands.

The Commissioner, the Tribunal and the investigation of complaints

8. The Commissioner.
9. Investigation of complaints.

The Intelligence and Security Committee

10. The Intelligence and Security Committee.

Supplementary

11. Interpretation and consequential amendments.
12. Short title, commencement and extent.

Schedules

Schedule 1 - Investigation of Complaints.
Schedule 2 - The Tribunal.
Schedule 3 - The Intelligence and Security Committee.
Schedule 4 - Consequential amendments.