In this Chapter—

• “communication” includes—

  1. a

     anything comprising speech, music, sounds, visual images or data of any description, and

  2. b

     signals serving either for the impartation of anything between persons, between a person and a thing or between things or for the actuation or control of any apparatus;

• “equipment” means equipment producing electromagnetic, acoustic or other emissions or any device capable of being used in connection with such equipment;

• “equipment data” has the meaning given by section 177;

• “private information” includes information relating to a person’s private or family life;

• “protected material”, in relation to a bulk equipment interference warrant, has the meaning given by section 193(9);

• “senior official” means a member of the Senior Civil Service or a member of the Senior Management Structure of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service;

• “the specified operational purposes” has the meaning given by section 183(12).

See also—

• section 261 (telecommunications definitions);

• section 263 (general definitions);

• section 264 (general definitions: “journalistic material” etc.);

• section 265 (index of defined expressions).