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Intelligence and Security Act 2017

Authorisations - Intelligence warrants - Urgent intelligence warrants

76: Information to be destroyed if intelligence warrant issued under section 71 or 72 revoked

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"Destroy information collected if a spy warrant is cancelled"

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If you have an intelligence warrant issued under section 71 and it gets revoked under section 74(1), you must destroy all the information you got from that warrant as soon as you can. You have to do the same thing if you have a warrant issued under section 72 and it gets revoked under section 75(1). There is an exception to this rule, which is explained in section 104, and it says you can keep some information that you got by accident.

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Part 4Authorisations
Intelligence warrants: Urgent intelligence warrants

76Information to be destroyed if intelligence warrant issued under section 71 or 72 revoked

  1. If an intelligence warrant issued under section 71 is revoked under section 74(1), all information obtained under that warrant must be destroyed as soon as practicable.

  2. If an intelligence warrant issued under section 72 is revoked under section 75(1), all information obtained under that warrant must be destroyed as soon as practicable.

  3. Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to any incidentally obtained information that may be retained under section 104.