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Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25)
Part 6 — Bulk warrants
Chapter 3 — Bulk equipment interference warrants
Interpretation
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Chapter 3: interpretation
(1)
In this Chapter—
“communication” includes—
(a) anything comprising speech, music, sounds, visual images or
data of any description, and
(b) signals serving either for the impartation of anything between
persons, between a person and a thing or between things or for
the actuation or control of any apparatus;
“equipment” means equipment producing electromagnetic, acoustic or
other emissions or any device capable of being used in connection with
such equipment;
“equipment data” has the meaning given by section 177;
“private information” includes information relating to a person’s private
or family life;
“protected material”, in relation to a bulk equipment interference warrant,
has the meaning given by section 193(9);
“senior official” means a member of the Senior Civil Service or a member
of the Senior Management Structure of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic
Service;
“the specified operational purposes” has the meaning given by section
183(12).
(2)
See also—
section 261 (telecommunications definitions);
section 263 (general definitions);
section 264 (general definitions: “journalistic material” etc.);
section 265 (index of defined expressions).
PART 7
BULK PERSONAL DATASET WARRANTS
Bulk personal datasets: interpretation
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(1)
Bulk personal datasets: interpretation
For the purposes of this Part, an intelligence service retains a bulk personal
dataset if—
(a) the intelligence service obtains a set of information that includes
personal data relating to a number of individuals,
(b) the nature of the set is such that the majority of the individuals are not,
and are unlikely to become, of interest to the intelligence service in the
exercise of its functions,
(c) after any initial examination of the contents, the intelligence service
retains the set for the purpose of the exercise of its functions, and
(d) the set is held, or is to be held, electronically for analysis in the exercise
of those functions.