Part 1: Bulk Personal Datasets Third party bulk personal datasets New section 226GB of the IPA 2016: Approval of third party BPD warrants issued in urgent cases
This section describes the process for the approval of 3PD warrants issued in urgent cases. This applies when a 3PD warrant is issued without JC prior approval and the Secretary of State considered that there was an urgent need for it to be issued.
	Subsection (2) provides that the Secretary of State must inform the JC that the warrant has been issued. The JC must then, before the end of the third working day after the day on which the warrant was issued – the "relevant period" –decide whether to approve the decision to issue the warrant and notify the Secretary of State of the Judicial Commissioner’s 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 if a Judicial Commissioner refuses to approve the decision to issue a 3PD warrant, the warrant ceases to have effect (unless already cancelled), and may not be renewed. The Secretary of State may not asked the Investigatory Powers Commissioner to revisit the JC’s decision under section 226GA(4).
	Subsection (6) provides that the head of the intelligence to which the warrant was issued, must ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that any processes being done in reliance on the warrant stops as soon as possible.
	Under subsection (7), 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.