Part 1: Bulk Personal Datasets Low or no reasonable expectation of privacy New section 226BC of the IPA 2016: Approval of individual authorisations granted in urgent cases
This section provides that where an individual authorisation has been granted in urgent circumstances without prior approval from a JC because of an urgent need to grant it, a JC must be informed by the person that granted it. Subsection (3) provides that the JC has three working days (commencing from the day after the urgent authorisation was granted) to decide whether or not to approve the decision to grant the authorisation and to inform the person who granted the authorisation of that decision.
	Subsection (4) explains that subsections (5) to (7) set out what happens if a judicial commissioner refuses to approve the decision to grant an urgent individual authorisation.
	Subsection (5) provides that the urgent authorisation ceases to have effect unless already cancelled, may not be renewed and that the head of the intelligence service (or person acting on their behalf) may not ask the IPC to revisit the JC’s decision under section 226BB(4).
	Subsection (6) provides that where JC has refused to approve the decision to grant an urgent authorisation, the head of the intelligence service must, as far as reasonably practicable, ensure that use of the dataset stops as soon as possible.
	Subsection (7) provides that where a JC refuses to approve a decision to grant the urgent authorisation, section 220 (Part 7 initial examinations: time limits) applies to that dataset as if intelligence service had obtained that dataset at the time it was notified of the decision to refuse to approve the grant of the urgent authorisation. This has the effect of restarting the time limit for the intelligence service to carry out an initial examination of the dataset so that it can decide whether it wishes to continue to retain, or retain and examine, the dataset in whole or in part and can make such consequential arrangements as are necessary (e.g, granting a further individual authorisation under section 226B).
	Under subsection (8), the lawfulness of things done in reliance on an urgent individual authorisation that a JC subsequently refuses to approve is not affected by the authorisation ceasing to have effect.