Meanings of investigatory powers in English

But the investigatory powers bill hits heavy weather.

This bill updates and improves the framework used by agencies and the way existing investigatory powers are authorised.

The investigatory powers bill -where Labour has a chequered history -was before the Lords on Monday.

Witness last week's investigatory powers bill.

By using the investigatory powers tribunal, members of the public can bring complaints against the security services, including MI5.

Reading through the draft investigatory powers bill on Wednesday evening, one name came to mind, that of Frederick Douglass.

Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January, giving them investigatory powers including the ability to issue subpoenas.

In Britain, there will be some who see Theresa May's new investigatory powers bill in a more urgent light after Paris.

The investigatory powers bill will put mass digital surveillance activities on a clear legal footing for the first time since Snowden's disclosure.

There is no right of appeal within the UK against IPT rulings, although the investigatory powers bill plans to introduce such a procedure.

Oversight and redress The existing system of three separate surveillance and intercept commissioners is to be replaced by one overarching investigatory powers commissioner.

The UK parliament has passed the investigatory powers bill, due to receive royal assent shortly, that basically legalises the illegal activities exposed by Snowden.

A right of appeal is also to be introduced from the investigatory powers tribunal -the only court in Britain that can try intelligence cases.

When the Home Office and intelligence agencies began promoting the idea that the new investigatory powers bill was a "climbdown", I grew suspicious.

Whatever the original laudable ambitions for, and achievements of, the Press Complaints Commission the fact remained that it had no investigatory powers and no sanctions.

Barr asks whether he was aware of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.