Part 7: Bulk personal dataset warrants Section 209: Approval of specific BPD warrants issued in urgent cases
This section applies to specific BPD warrants only. If the Secretary of State considers that there is an urgent need to issue it, a specific BPD warrant may be issued without the approval of the Judicial Commissioner. If this happens, a Judicial Commissioner must be informed that an urgent warrant has been issued and, within three working days, decide whether to approve the issue of that warrant and notify the Secretary of State of the decision. This is the same approach as for urgent targeted interception warrants (for example). Subsection (4) explains that if the Judicial Commissioner refuses to approve the decision to issue the warrant, it ceases to have effect.