Part 1: Bulk Personal Datasets Third party bulk personal datasets New section 226G of the IPA 2016: Application for third party BPD warrant
This section permits the head of an intelligence service or a person acting on their behalf to apply to the Secretary of State for a 3PD warrant.
	Subsection (2) provides that the application must include a general description of the dataset or datasets in the application (a general description may describe more than one dataset provided that the general description applies to each dataset). The requirement to provide a general description is different from the requirement to provide a description for a warrant under Part 7, reflecting the extent to which the intelligence service is able to describe the set given it does not retain a set examined under Part 7B.
	Subsection (3) provides that where the person making the application knows that:
the dataset consists of protected data or health records,
a substantial proportion of the dataset consists of sensitive personal data, or
the nature of the set, or the circumstances in which it was created, are such that its examination under Part 7B is likely to cause novel or contentious issues,
	the application must include a statement to that effect (see subsection (6)).
	Subsection (4) sets out the test that the Secretary of State must apply when deciding whether or not to issue a warrant. The Secretary of State may issue the warrant if he or she considers that the warrant is necessary for specified purposes, the conduct to be authorised is proportionate to what is sought to be achieved by it, there are satisfactory arrangements in place for the examination of the set and, unless it is urgent, the decision to issue the warrant has been approved by a JC. Subsection (5) provides that the fact that a 3PD warrant would authorise the examination of bulk personal datasets relating to activities in the British Islands of a trade union is not in itself sufficient to establish that it is necessary. Subsections (7) and (8) are concerned with the definition of health records for the purposes of section 226G.
	The application may only be made on behalf of the head of an intelligence service by a person holding office under the Crown.