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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Covert activities of intelligence and security agencies - Assumed identities

29: Non-compliance with enactments, policies, and practices

You could also call this:

"Breaking rules when spies use secret identities"

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If you are part of an intelligence and security agency, you can issue or change evidence of a secret identity without following certain rules. These rules are usually about meeting specific criteria or standards, or following a certain process. You can also give assistance in other ways without complying with these rules, such as requirements or procedures, when you are taking action as part of your agency's covert activities.

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Part 3Covert activities of intelligence and security agencies
Assumed identities

29Non-compliance with enactments, policies, and practices

  1. Evidence of an assumed identity may be issued, given, changed, or cancelled by an agency, and assistance may otherwise be given under this subpart, without complying with any enactment, policy, or practice that, in relation to the action taken by the agency, requires compliance with any specified or prescribed—

  2. criteria or standards:
    1. requirements:
      1. process or procedure.