Part 7A

Bulk personal dataset authorisations

Duration, renewal and cancellation

Non-renewal or cancellation of individual authorisation
226CC
1
This section applies where an individual authorisation ceases to have effect because it expires without having been renewed or because it is cancelled.
2
The head of the intelligence service, or a person acting on their behalf, may, before the end of the period of 5 working days beginning with the day on which the authorisation ceases to have effect, decide to grant a new individual authorisation (see section
226B
) to retain, or to retain and examine, any material retained by the intelligence service in reliance on the authorisation which has ceased to have effect.
3
Where an individual authorisation ceases to have effect because it expires without having been renewed or because it is cancelled, an intelligence service is not to be regarded as in breach of section 200(1) or (2) by virtue of its retention or examination of any material to which the authorisation related during the following periods—
a
the period of 5 working days beginning with the day on which the authorisation ceases to have effect;
b
if the head of the intelligence service, or a person acting on their behalf, decides to grant a new individual authorisation as mentioned in subsection
(2)
, any period when a Judicial Commissioner is deciding whether to approve the decision.
Pt. 7A inserted (14.10.2024) by Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 (c. 9), ss. 2, 32(2); S.I. 2024/1021, reg. 2(b)