Part 7Bulk personal dataset warrants

Bulk personal datasets: interpretation

• Section 199Bulk personal datasets: interpretation

  (1) For the purposes of this Part and Part 7A , an intelligence service retains a bulk personal dataset if— (a) the intelligence service obtains a set of…

Requirement for authorisation

• Section 200Requirement for authorisation ...: general

  (1) An intelligence service may not exercise a power to retain a bulk personal dataset unless the retention of the dataset is authorised (a) by a warrant under…

• Section 201Exceptions to section 200(1) and (2)

  (1) Section 200(1) or (2) does not apply to the exercise of a power of an intelligence service to retain or (as the case may be) examine a…

Restriction on use of class BPD warrants etc

• Section 202Restriction on use of class BPD warrants

  (1) An intelligence service may not retain, or retain and examine, a bulk personal dataset in reliance on a class BPD warrant if the head of the intelligence…

• Section 202AFurther provision about sensitive processing

  (1) The Secretary of State may by regulations— (a) make provision so that a description of Part 4 sensitive processing, or of processing that would be such processing…

• Section 203Meaning of “protected data”

  (1) In this Part, “protected data” means any data contained in a bulk personal dataset other than data which is one or more of the following— (a) systems…

Issue of warrants

• Section 204Class BPD warrants

  (1) The head of an intelligence service, or a person acting on his or her behalf, may apply to the Secretary of State for a class BPD warrant.…

• Section 205Specific BPD warrants

  (1) The head of an intelligence service, or a person acting on his or her behalf, may apply to the Secretary of State for a specific BPD warrant…

• Section 206Additional safeguards for health records

  (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply if— (a) an application is made by or on behalf of the head of an intelligence service for the issue of a…

• Section 207Protected data: power to impose conditions

  Where the Secretary of State decides to issue a specific BPD warrant, the Secretary of State may impose conditions which must be satisfied before protected data retained in…

• Section 208Approval of warrants by Judicial Commissioners

  (1) In deciding whether to approve a decision to issue a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant, a Judicial Commissioner must review the Secretary of State's…

• Section 209Approval of specific BPD warrants issued in urgent cases

  (1) This section applies where— (a) a specific BPD warrant is issued without the approval of a Judicial Commissioner, and (b) the Secretary of State considered that there…

• Section 210Failure to approve specific BPD warrant issued in urgent case

  (1) This section applies where under section 209(3) a Judicial Commissioner refuses to approve the decision to issue a warrant. (2) The head of the intelligence service to…

• Section 211Decisions to issue warrants to be taken personally by Secretary of State

  (1) The decision to issue a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant must be taken personally by the Secretary of State. (2) Before a class BPD…

• Section 212Requirements that must be met by warrants

  (1) A class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant must contain a provision stating whether it is a class BPD warrant or (as the case may be)…

Duration, modification and cancellation

• Section 213Duration of warrants

  (1) A class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant ceases to have effect at the end of the relevant period (see subsection (2) ) unless— (a) it…

• Section 214Renewal of warrants

  (1) If the renewal conditions are met, a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant may be renewed, at any time during the renewal period, by an…

• Section 215Modification of warrants

  (1) The provisions of a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant may be modified at any time by an instrument issued by the person making the…

• Section 216Approval of major modifications by Judicial Commissioners

  (1) In deciding whether to approve a decision to make a major modification of a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant, a Judicial Commissioner must review…

• Section 217Approval of major modifications made in urgent cases

  (1) This section applies where— (a) the Secretary of State makes a major modification of a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant without the approval of…

• Section 218Cancellation of warrants

  (1) The Secretary of State, or a senior official acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, may cancel a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant…

• Section 219Non-renewal or cancellation of BPD warrants

  (1) This section applies where a class BPD warrant or a specific BPD warrant ceases to have effect because it expires without having been renewed or because it…

Further and supplementary provision

• Section 220Initial examinations: time limits

  (1) This section applies where— (a) an intelligence service obtains a set of information otherwise than in the exercise of a power conferred by a warrant or other…

• Section 221Safeguards relating to examination of bulk personal datasets

  (1) The Secretary of State must ensure, in relation to every class BPD warrant or specific BPD warrant which authorises examination of bulk personal datasets of a class…

• Section 222Additional safeguards for items subject to legal privilege: examination

  (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply if, in a case where protected data retained in reliance on a specific BPD warrant is to be selected for examination— (a)…

• Section 223Additional safeguards for items subject to legal privilege: retention following examination

  (1) Where an item subject to legal privilege is retained following its examination in reliance on a specific BPD warrant, for purposes other than the destruction of the…

• Section 224Offence of breaching safeguards relating to examination of material

  (1) A person commits an offence if— (a) the person selects for examination any data contained in a bulk personal dataset retained in reliance on a class BPD…

• Section 225Application of Part to bulk personal datasets obtained under this Act

  (1) Subject to subsection (2) , this section applies where a bulk personal dataset has been obtained by an intelligence service under a warrant or other authorisation issued…

• Section 226Part 7: interpretation

  (1) In this Part— “class BPD warrant” has the meaning given by section 200(3) (a); “personal data” has the meaning given by section 199(2) ; “senior official” means…