Part 5: Equipment interference Section 114: Sources of Journalistic Information
This section sets out the additional safeguards which apply when an agency applies for a targeted equipment interference warrant and the purpose, or one of the purposes of the warrant is to identify or confirm a journalist’s source. It provides that the warrant application must make clear that this is the purpose or one of the purposes. In addition, specific arrangements must be in place for the handling, retention, use and destruction of material that identifies sources of journalistic information.