Regulation 8 Transitional provision regarding bulk personal datasets
Until 22nd February 2019, subsections (1) and (2) of section 200 (requirement for authorisation by warrant) do not apply in relation to a bulk personal dataset which is retained by an intelligence service immediately before 22nd August 2018.
Paragraph (1) does not prevent—
the making of an application for, or the issue of, a specific BPD warrant authorising the retention, or retention and examination, of a bulk personal dataset which is retained by an intelligence service immediately before 22nd August 2018;
the making of an application for, or the issue of, a class BPD warrant authorising the retention, or retention and examination, of bulk personal datasets of a class including a bulk personal dataset which is retained by an intelligence service immediately before 22nd August 2018;
the making of an application for, or the giving of, a direction under section 225 in relation to a bulk personal dataset which is retained by an intelligence service immediately before 22nd August 2018.
Paragraph (1) ceases to apply, in relation to a bulk personal dataset which is retained by an intelligence service immediately before 22nd August 2018, where at any time before 22nd February 2019 the Secretary of State issues—
a specific BPD warrant authorising the retention, or retention and examination, of that dataset, or
a class BPD warrant authorising the retention, or retention and examination, of bulk personal datasets of a class including that dataset.