Part 1Powers to gather and share information
Disclosure of information and the intelligence services
20I1Disclosure and the intelligence services: supplementary provisions
1
The provisions of section 19 (disclosure and use of information) do not affect the duties with respect to the obtaining or disclosure of information imposed—
a
on the Director-General of the Security Service, by section 2(2) of the Security Service Act 1989;
b
on the Chief of the Intelligence Service, by section 2(2) of the Intelligence Services Act 1994;
c
on the Director of GCHQ, by section 4(2) of that Act.
2
Nothing in that section authorises a disclosure that—
a
contravenes F2the data protection legislation, or
b
is prohibited by F3any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
3
The provisions of that section are without prejudice to any rule of law authorising the obtaining, use or disclosure of information by any of the intelligence services.
4
Schedule 1 contains amendments consequential on that section.
F15
In this section, “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).