(1)In this Chapter—
“communication” includes—
anything comprising speech, music, sounds, visual images or data of any description, and
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).
(2)See also—
section 261 (telecommunications definitions);
section 263 (general definitions);
section 264 (general definitions: “journalistic material” etc.);
section 265 (index of defined expressions).