RRA 2025 Investigatory Powers

What Will You Learn?

• Say which legislation the Chapter 3 powers serve, tell the s.114(3) list from the s.115(3) list, and apply the s.132 definitions that decide whether a given officer holds a given power.
• Draft a s.114 information notice that meets the twelve-month test and says what the Act requires, and answer the three objections it attracts: privilege, self-incrimination and communications data.
• Use the wider s.115 power, enforce it through a s.116 court order rather than an offence, and keep the s.117 use restriction intact instead of spending it on the suspect.
• Enter business premises under s.118 on its two conditions, discharge the s.119 duties at the front desk, and build a s.120 warrant application that satisfies the four cumulative matters.
• Require production under s.122, seize and detain under s.123 with the three-month clock running from the day of seizure, reach the CJPA seize-and-sift power through s.133, and answer a s.124 access request.
• Enter a suspected residential tenancy on a special authorisation, work out who is entitled to notice and whose waiver counts, and carry out the s.127 duties once you are inside somebody's home.
• Use the Housing Act 2004 gateways and entry powers as ss.134 and 135 leave them, and tell a regulation 3 membership breach from a regulation 4 transparency breach.
• Discharge the PACE and CPIA duties on a Chapter 3 file, route directed surveillance and communications data to the right regime, and hold the paper trail in registers that survive disclosure.
• Work a live case across all eight squares of the Power Board, from naming the offence to choosing between prosecution and a s.1A penalty.