Part 5: Equipment interference Section 103: Power to issue warrants to intelligence services: the Scottish Ministers
This section provides that the Scottish Ministers may issue a warrant under this Part where they consider that the warrant is necessary for the prevention or detection of serious crime, and proportionate to what is sought to be achieved. Unless it is considered urgent, the decision of the Scottish Ministers to issue the warrant must be approved by a Judicial Commissioner before the warrant can be issued.
	The Scottish Ministers may only consider applications for targeted equipment interference warrants made by or on behalf of the head of an intelligence service, which relate only to equipment in or believed to be in Scotland. The Scottish Ministers may only consider applications for targeted examination warrants, which relate only to the protected material of a person in, or reasonably believed to be in, Scotland.
	A warrant cannot be considered necessary only on the basis that the information that would be obtained relates to trade union activity in the British Islands.