50 Effect of notice imposing disclosure requirement
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (2000 c 23) | Legislation

50  Effect of notice imposing disclosure requirement

(1)     Subject to the following provisions of this section, the effect of a section 49 notice imposing a disclosure requirement in respect of any protected information on a person who is in possession at a relevant time of both the protected information and a means of obtaining access to the information and of disclosing it in an intelligible form is that he—

(a)     shall be entitled to use any key in his possession to obtain access to the information or to put it into an intelligible form; and

(b)     shall be required, in accordance with the notice imposing the requirement, to make a disclosure of the information in an intelligible form.

(2)     A person subject to a requirement under subsection (1)(b) to make a disclosure of any information in an intelligible form shall be taken to have complied with that requirement if—

(a)     he makes, instead, a disclosure of any key to the protected information that is in his possession; and

(b)     that disclosure is made, in accordance with the notice imposing the requirement, to the person to whom, and by

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