Part 8: Oversight arrangements Chapter 1: Investigatory Powers Commissioner and other Judicial Commissioners Section 240: Abolition of existing oversight bodies
The IPC replaces the commissioners who provided oversight of investigatory powers before this Act: the Interception of Communications Commissioner, the Surveillance Commissioners (including Assistant Surveillance Commissioners) and the Intelligence Services Commissioner. The abolition of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner and Assistant Surveillance Commissioners includes those appointed by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of RIPSA. Accordingly, this section abolishes those offices.
	This section provides for a power to make regulations abolishing the Investigatory Powers Commissioner of Northern Ireland and providing for that Commissioner’s functions to be given to the IPC. Such regulations can only be made with the consent of the Northern Ireland Assembly.