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@fascinatorfun @mikarv It looks like the SI for the 2nd six-month extension of the retention of #DNA & #biometrics powers for National Security Determinations, under s24 of the #CoronavirusAct2020.

The statutory guidance for NSDs is here:
gov.uk/government/pub…

If they are using NSDs (which must...
@fascinatorfun @mikarv ...be in writing, and signed by a senior police officer in each individual case) for any purpose OTHER than those laid out in the relevant counter-terrorism laws, then they're truly fucked.

Maybe ask the Biometrics Commissioner how many NSDs have been made under COVID?
@fascinatorfun @mikarv Extending 'em a further six months is worrying for reasons other than just the extraordinary powers themselves, though: it's an admission from Government that police forces' capacities are as limited as they were at the peak of the first wave, for matters of #NationalSecurity...
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Benet Brandreth QC and Guy Sandhurst (ne Mansfield) QC of @SocConLaw have revived the debate about whether the lockdown Regs are lawful (they say not): …3-4e55-8088-a1c763d8c9d1.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1a359_e1c…. It is certainly odd that the position was not put beyond doubt in #CoronavirusAct2020.
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Debate on the lawfulness of the #Coronavirus Regulations started on the day they were made daqc.co.uk/2020/03/26/can…. Subsequent contributions have been of very high quality … /1
… ranging from @jeff_a_king (who is satisfied the Regs are lawful ukconstitutionallaw.org/2020/04/01/jef…) to @TomRHickman and colleagues (coronavirus.blackstonechambers.com/coronavirus-an…, paras 31-46) and @RobertCraig3 (ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/04/06/loc…) who in strong pieces posted today amplify my doubts. /2
Hickman and I consider that a "plausible" defence of the legal basis for the Regulations could be mounted before a sympathetic court, while Craig suggests that they might be declared invalid with prospective effect, giving Parliament a chance to rectify the situation. /3
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