55 General duties of specified authorities

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55  General duties of specified authorities

(1)     This section applies to—

(a)     the Secretary of State and every other Minister of the Crown in charge of a government department;

(b)     every chief officer of police;

[(ba)     the Director General of the National Crime Agency;]

[(bb)     . . .]

[(c)     the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;] and

(d)     every person whose officers or employees include persons with duties that involve the giving of section 49 notices.

(2)     It shall be the duty of each of the persons to whom this section applies to ensure that such arrangements are in force, in relation to persons under his control who by virtue of this Part obtain possession of keys to protected information, as he considers necessary for securing—

(a)     that a key disclosed in pursuance of a section 49 notice is used for obtaining access to, or putting into an intelligible form, only protected information in relation to which power to give such a notice was exercised or could have been exercised if the key had not

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