Part 6: Bulk warrants Chapter 2: Bulk acquisition warrants Section 173: Offence of breaching safeguards relating to examination of data
Subsection (1) creates a criminal offence for the deliberate selection for examination of material collected under a bulk acquisition warrant, where the person knows or believes that selection is in breach of the examination safeguards in section 172.
	Subsection (2) sets out the penalties for a person found guilty of this offence.
	Proceedings in relation to an offence under this section may only be instituted by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales or the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland in Northern Ireland.