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BIG BROTHER WATCH AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENT
in accordance with the safeguards which the Secretary of State has approved in
accordance with section 15 of RIPA.
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6.5. Each relevant public authority must also keep a record of the following
information:
A. the number of applications submitted by an applicant to a SPoC requesting the
acquisition of communications data (including orally);
B. the number of applications submitted by an applicant to a SPoC requesting the
acquisition of communications data (including orally), which were referred back to
the applicant for amendment or declined by the SPoC, including the reason for doing
so;
C. the number of applications submitted to a designated person for a decision to
obtain communications data (including orally), which were approved after due
consideration;
D. the number of applications submitted to a designated person for a decision to
obtain communications data (including orally), which were referred back to the
applicant or rejected after due consideration, including the reason for doing so;
E. the number of notices requiring disclosure of communications data (not
including urgent oral applications);
F. the number of authorisations for conduct to acquire communications data (not
including urgent oral applications);
G. the number of times an urgent application is approved orally;
H. the number of times an urgent notice is given orally, or an urgent authorisation
granted orally, requiring disclosure of communications data;
I. the priority grading of the application for communications data, as set out at
paragraph 3.5 and footnote 52 of this code;
J. whether any part of the application relates to a person who is a member of a
profession that handles privileged or otherwise confidential information (such as a
medical doctor, lawyer, journalist, Member of Parliament, or minister of religion)
(and if so, which profession); and
K. the number of items of communications data sought, for each notice given, or
authorisation granted (including orally).
6.6. For each item of communications data included within a notice or
authorisation, the relevant public authority must also keep a record of the following:
A. the Unique Reference Number (URN) allocated to the application, notice and/or
authorisation;
B. the statutory purpose for which the item of communications data is being
requested, as set out at section 22(2) of RIPA;
C. where the item of communications data is being requested for the purpose of
preventing or detecting crime or of preventing disorder, as set out at section 22(2)(b)
of RIPA, the crime type being investigated;
D. whether the item of communications data is traffic data, service use information,
or subscriber information, as described at section 21 (4) of RIPA, and Chapter 2 of
this code;