Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Miscellaneous provisions - Ministerial policy statements

209: Effect of ministerial policy statement

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"Considering the Minister's Rules When Making Decisions"

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When you are making a decision or taking action at an intelligence and security agency, you must think about any relevant ministerial policy statement. You have to consider what it says when you are the Director-General or an employee of the agency. This means you must take the ministerial policy statement into account when deciding what to do.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Ministerial policy statements

209Effect of ministerial policy statement

  1. In making any decision or taking any action, the Director-General of an intelligence and security agency and every employee of that agency must have regard to any relevant ministerial policy statement.