Clause 18
Counter-Terrorism Bill
Public Bill Committees, 29 April 2008, 5:15 pm
David Heath (Somerton & Frome, Liberal Democrat)
The Minister has been helpful in setting out the scope of the clause, and the example of the French police was extremely useful. I wonder at what point the adverb “lawfully” applies in qualification of “obtained or acquired” in section (3)(c). Clearly, it is lawful for the British security service or police lawfully to obtain or acquire information that has unlawfully been obtained or acquired by a law enforcement agency under another jurisdiction. Does “lawfully” apply to the source or simply to the point of acquisition by the British law enforcement authority?