Part 1: Bulk Personal Datasets Third party bulk personal datasets New section 226ID of the IPA 2016: Offence of breaching safeguards relating to examination of material
This section creates a new offence that applies where a person deliberately examines a third party bulk personal dataset, in reliance on a 3PD warrant, knowing or believing that the examination is not necessary and proportionate. An offence is committed if a person examines a 3PD with reliance on a 3PD warrant, the person knows the examination is a breach of the requirement specified in subsection (2) and the person deliberately examines that data in breach of that requirement.
	This section also sets out the penalties for a person found guilty of this offence, and makes clear that 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.