Part 5: Equipment interference Section 101: Subject-matter of warrants
This section sets out the permitted subject matter of a warrant under this Part. A targeted equipment interference warrant may relate to:
a particular person, persons or group of persons who share a common purpose or who carry on, or may carry on, a particular activity (e.g. the computer equipment of Person X);
a particular organisation or organisations (e.g. the computer equipment of Organisation X);
a particular location or locations where the equipment being interfered with is present (e.g. computer equipment located at House X);
equipment which is being, or may be, used for the purposes of a particular activity or activities (e.g. equipment being used to disseminate terrorist publications); or
equipment that is being used for testing and development.
	A targeted equipment interference warrant may relate to equipment where there is a common link between multiple people, locations or organisations where the interference is for the purpose of the same investigation or operation (so, for example, computers believed to being used by Terrorist Plot Group X), or equipment that is being used for a particular activity. These latter warrants have sometimes been described as ‘thematic’.
	Subsection (2) relates to targeted examination warrants, providing that they may relate to: a person or organisation (or more than one person or organisation subject to the same investigation or operation); a group of persons with a common purpose or who carry on, or may carry on, a particular activity; the testing maintenance or development of capabilities; or the training of persons who carry out, or are likely to carry out, the selection of material derived from bulk equipment interference.