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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Miscellaneous provisions - Periodic reviews

237: Provision of information

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"People doing a review can ask for and get information to help them from intelligence and security agencies."

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When you are part of a review, you need information to help you. The people doing the review can ask the Director-General of an intelligence and security agency and the Inspector-General for information. The Director-General or the Inspector-General can give information to the reviewers, even if they did not ask for it, or they can give it in response to a request. You can find more about this in the Intelligence and Security Act from 1996. The reviewers use this information to conduct their review.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Periodic reviews

237Provision of information

  1. To assist the reviewers to conduct their review,—

  2. the reviewers may ask the Director-General of an intelligence and security agency and the Inspector-General to provide information; and
    1. the Director-General of an intelligence and security agency or the Inspector-General may provide information to the reviewers, whether in response to a request under paragraph (a) or on his or her own initiative.

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