Schedule 2 Private investigators
25.Paragraph 4(1) defines the activities covered as surveillance, inquiries or investigations carried out for the purpose of obtaining information about a person or about a person’s activities or whereabouts. Under Paragraph 4(2)-(10) the following activities are excluded:
	market research activities;
	activities exclusively concerned with a credit check;
	the professional activities of practising solicitors and barristers;
	the professional activities of practising accountants
	the professional activities of journalists and broadcasters;
	activities relating to reference to registers which are open to the public; registers or records to which a person has a right of access; and published works;
	activities carried out with the knowledge or consent of the subject of the investigation;
	activities of a person which are incidental to those of a security operative.