Part 3: Authorisations for obtaining communications data Section 75: Judicial approval for local authority authorisations
This section provides a procedure by which local authority authorisations to obtain communications data can only take effect if approved by a relevant judicial authority.
	This means that a local authority authorisation granted under section 73 will not take effect until the "relevant judicial authority" has given its approval. The relevant judicial authority is defined in subsection (7). In England and Wales, the judicial authority is a justice of the peace, in Northern Ireland it is a district judge (magistrates’ court) and in Scotland, a sheriff.