Part 1: Espionage, sabotage and persons acting for foreign powers Foreign power condition and foreign power threat activity Section 32: Meaning of ‘foreign power’
This section defines a foreign power for the purpose of the foreign power condition. Subsection (1) sets out the persons and bodies that comprise a foreign power.
	Subsection (2) provides the definition of a governing political party for subsection (1). Subsection (3) excludes a governing political party of the Republic of Ireland that is also a registered political party in the United Kingdom from that definition. This exclusion is included in recognition of the fact that there are political parties that contest elections in the Republic of Ireland and in the United Kingdom.
	Subsection (4) defines a number of other terms as part of the foreign power definition.