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31(1)The Secretary of State must arrange for a report under paragraph 30(1) to be published in such manner as he considers appropriate.
(2)The Secretary of State may exclude any part of a report from publication under sub-paragraph (1) if he considers that publication of that part—
(a)would be against the interests of national security,
(b)could prejudice the prevention or detection of crime or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, or
(c)could jeopardise the safety of any person.
(3)The Secretary of State must send a copy of the published report to the Agency.
(4)The Agency must—
(a)prepare comments on the published report, and
(b)arrange for its comments to be published in such manner as it considers appropriate.
(5)The Agency must send a copy of any document published under sub-paragraph (4) to the Secretary of State.
(6)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b) “the detection of crime” shall be taken to include establishing by whom, for what purpose, by what means and generally in what circumstances any crime was committed.
(7)For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2)(b) and (6) “crime” means conduct—
(a)which constitutes one or more criminal offences under the law of a part of the United Kingdom, or
(b)which is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in one part of the United Kingdom, would constitute one or more criminal offences under the law of that part.
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