F1Part 7BThird party bulk personal datasets

Requirement for warrant

226FRequirement for authorisation by warrant

(1)

An intelligence service may not exercise a power to examine a third party bulk personal dataset unless the examination of the dataset is authorised by a third party BPD warrant.

(2)

A “third party BPD warrant” is a warrant issued under this Part authorising an intelligence service to examine any third party bulk personal dataset described in the warrant.

(3)

A third party BPD warrant may authorise the examination of a bulk personal dataset—

(a)

the content of which may vary from time to time, or

(b)

that does not exist at the time of the issue of the warrant.