Part 7Bulk personal dataset warrants

Requirement for authorisation

200Requirement for authorisation F1...: general

(1)

An intelligence service may not exercise a power to retain a bulk personal dataset unless the retention of the dataset is authorised

F2(a)

by a warrant under this Part F3, or

(b)

by an individual authorisation under Part 7A (low or no reasonable expectation of privacy) (see section 226B).

(2)

An intelligence service may not exercise a power to examine a bulk personal dataset retained by it unless the examination is authorised

F4(a)

by a warrant under this Part F5, or

(b)

by an individual authorisation under Part 7A.

(3)

For the purposes of this Part, there are two kinds of warrant—

(a)

a warrant, referred to in this Part as “a class BPD warrant”, authorising an intelligence service to retain, or to retain and examine, any bulk personal dataset of a class described in the warrant;

(b)

a warrant, referred to in this Part as “a specific BPD warrant”, authorising an intelligence service to retain, or to retain and examine, any bulk personal dataset described in the warrant.

(4)

Section 201 sets out exceptions to the restrictions imposed by subsections (1) and (2) of this section.