Part 7: Bulk personal dataset warrants Section 199: Bulk personal datasets: interpretation
Subsection (1) sets out the circumstances in which, for the purposes of this Bill, an intelligence service retains a bulk personal dataset. An intelligence service is defined in the general definitions section of the Act to mean MI5, SIS or GCHQ. The safeguards set out in this Part must be followed if these circumstances are met. A bulk personal dataset is a set of information that includes personal data relating to a number of individuals, the majority of whom are not, and are unlikely to become, of interest to the service in the exercise of its functions.
	Subsection (2) defines personal data. The definition is the same as in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) except that it also encompasses data relating to deceased persons. This slight widening of the DPA definition ensures that, where the bulk personal datasets retained or retained and examined by an intelligence service include data relating to deceased persons, the same safeguards will apply to all the data contained in those datasets.