Part 1: Bulk Personal Datasets Low or no reasonable expectation of privacy New section 226CC of the IPA 2016: Non-renewal or cancellation of individual authorisation
This section concerns where an individual authorisation ceases to have effect because it has expired without being renewed or because it is cancelled.
	Subsection (2) provides that the head of an intelligence service (or another Crown Servant on their behalf) may decide to grant a new individual authorisation to retain or retain and examine any material held in reliance on an authorisation that has ceased to have effect. In such circumstances a new authorisation must be granted before the end of five working days, beginning with the day on which the authorisation ceased to have effect.
	Subsection (3) provides that an intelligence service is not in breach of section 200 (1) of (2) (requirement for authorisation) for certain periods where an individual authorisation has ceased to have effect. These periods are five working days beginning with the day on which the authorisation ceases to have effect, or in the case where a new authorisation is granted, the period in which a JC is deciding whether to approve the decision.