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RA Proof 20.7.2000
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Part I
Chapter I
(b) in a case falling within subsection (2), under the hand of a
senior official.
(2) Those cases are—
(a) an urgent case in which the Secretary of State has himself
expressly authorised the issue of the warrant in that case; and
(b) a case in which the warrant is for the purposes of a request for
assistance made under an international mutual assistance
agreement by the competent authorities of a country or territory
outside the United Kingdom and either—
(i) it appears that the interception subject is outside the
United Kingdom; or
(ii) the interception to which the warrant relates is to take
place in relation only to premises outside the United
Kingdom.
(3) An interception warrant—
(a) must be addressed to the person falling within section 6(2) by
whom, or on whose behalf, the application for the warrant was
made; and
(b) in the case of a warrant issued under the hand of a senior official,
must contain, according to whatever is applicable—
(i) one of the statements set out in subsection (4); and
(ii) if it contains the statement set out in subsection (4)(b),
one of the statements set out in subsection (5).
(4) The statements referred to in subsection (3)(b)(i) are—
(a) a statement that the case is an urgent case in which the Secretary
of State has himself expressly authorised the issue of the
warrant;
(b) a statement that the warrant is issued for the purposes of a
request for assistance made under an international mutual
assistance agreement by the competent authorities of a country
or territory outside the United Kingdom.
(5) The statements referred to in subsection (3)(b)(ii) are—
(a) a statement that the interception subject appears to be outside
the United Kingdom;
(b) a statement that the interception to which the warrant relates is
to take place in relation only to premises outside the United
Kingdom.
Contents of
warrants.
8.—(1) An interception warrant must name or describe either—
(a) one person as the interception subject; or
(b) a single set of premises as the premises in relation to which the
interception to which the warrant relates is to take place.
(2) The provisions of an interception warrant describing
communications the interception of which is authorised or required by
the warrant must comprise one or more schedules setting out the
addresses, numbers, apparatus or other factors, or combination of
factors, that are to be used for identifying the communications that may
be or are to be intercepted.