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The Intelligence Services Commissioner, was a regulatory official in the United Kingdom appointed under Section 59 of the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (citation of United Kingdom legislation, c. 23) (RIP or RIPA) is an Act of parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, regulating the powers of public bodies to carry out surveillanc ...
. They are tasked with reviewing actions and warrants taken by the Secretary of State under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the activities of British intelligence only in regard to the use of surveillance, covert human intelligence sources (i.e. agents) and interception of communications by
MI5 MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Gov ...
,https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/intelligence-services-commissioner.html 13 September 2011
MI6 The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...
,https://www.sis.gov.uk/about-us/legislation-and-accountability/oversight-by-independent-commisioners.html 13 September 2011 and
GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primar ...
assuming such actions and activities are not being reviewed by the
Interception of Communications Commissioner The Interception of Communications Commissioner was a regulatory official in the United Kingdom, appointed under section 57 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and previously under section 8 of the Interception of Communications ...
. Until January 2011, the Commissioner was Sir Peter Gibson. In January 2011, the
prime minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
David Cameron David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK s ...
appointed Sir Mark Waller as the Intelligence Services Commissioner, who continued in his post until retirement at the end of 2016.https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110120/wmstext/110120m0001.htm#11012057000097 13 September 2011 On 20 September 2016 Prime Minister
Theresa May Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead (; ; born 1 October 1956), is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served as Home Secretar ...
appointed Sir John Goldring to the office, effective 1 January 2017. On 1 September 2017 the offices of Intelligence Services Commissioner and the Chief Surveillance, Interception of Communications were combined into the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office.Investigatory Powers Commissioner establishes oversight regime
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See also

* Investigatory Powers Tribunal


References

{{Reflist Government of the United Kingdom Intelligence Services Commissioners