Part 5: Equipment interference Section 113: Confidential Journalistic Material
This section sets out the additional safeguards which apply when the purpose, or one of the purposes of a targeted equipment interference or examination warrant is to authorise or require the interference with equipment for the purpose of obtaining communications or other items of information which the agency believes will contain confidential journalistic material, or selection for examination of such communications or other items of information. It provides that the warrant application must include a statement that the purpose or one of the purposes of the warrant is to identify or confirm a source of journalistic information. In addition, specific arrangements must be in place for the handling, retention, use and destruction of communications or other items of information containing confidential journalistic material. The definition of "journalistic material" and "confidential journalistic material" is provided in section 264.