Part 5

Equipment interference

Additional safeguards

Sources of journalistic information
114
1
This section applies if an application is made for a warrant under this Part and the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the warrant is to identify or confirm a source of journalistic information.
(For the meaning of “source of journalistic information”, see section 263(1).)
2
The application must contain a statement that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the warrant is to identify or confirm a source of journalistic information.
3
The person to whom the application is made may issue the warrant only if the person considers that the arrangements made for the purposes of section 129 or (as the case may be) section 191 (safeguards relating to retention and disclosure of material) include specific arrangements for the handling, retention, use and destruction of communications or other items of information that identify sources of journalistic information.
S. 114 in force at 31.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/652, reg. 4(l)