Telegraph article on RIP

[Roland Perry]

In article <48493CDE.60405@lamont.me.uk>, Richard Lamont 
<richard@lamont.me.uk> writes
>Mr Lamont may be reassured to know that any such
>  proposals will be made by an order to be debated in both Houses of
>  Parliament by means of the affirmative resolution procedure. I can,
>  however, confirm even at this stage that such powers will not be made
>  available to local authorities.
>
>It is now evident that such powers have been made available to local
>authorities and therefore Charles Clarke, by lying in a written response
>to a PQ, has lied to Parliament.

Oddly enough, I gave a presentation to a police/industry forum soon 
after RIPA was enacted (but before it came into force) pointing out that 
Local Authorities (and thus Trading Standards) weren't included on the 
face of the Act [1], and therefore "The death of 29(3) was wildly 
exaggerated".

[1] Nor presumably were they expected to be added any time soon, or I 
would not have made the remarks.
-- 
Roland Perry