The Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c.7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that: The United Kingdom government had come to the conclusion that encryption, encryption services and electronic signatures would be important to e-commerce in the UK.

[citation needed] So a "sunset clause" was put in the bill.

The Electronic Communications Act 2000 gave the Home Office the power to create a registration regime for encryption services.

This was given a five-year period before it would automatically lapse, which eventually happened in May 2006.

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