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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016/schedule-8/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/25",
  "legislation_title": "Investigatory Powers Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investigatory-powers-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers may, on an application made by or on behalf of the head of an intelligence service, issue a warrant that combines a targeted interception warrant which the Scottish Ministers have power to issue under section 21(1) with one or more of the following—\n(a) a targeted examination warrant which the Scottish Ministers have power to issue under section 21(2);\n(b) a targeted equipment interference warrant which the Scottish Ministers have power to issue under section 103(1);\n(c) a targeted examination warrant which the Scottish Ministers have power to issue under section 103(2);\n(d) a warrant which the Scottish Ministers have power to issue under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (warrants for entry or interference with property or wireless telegraphy).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 31.5.2018 for specified purposes by S.I. 2018/652, reg. 6(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 6.7.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2018/817, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/25/schedule/8/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:02.282680+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}