Part of Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons am 7:30 pm ar 25 Mawrth 2024.
Jeremy Wright
Ceidwadwyr, Kenilworth and Southam
7:30,
25 Mawrth 2024
As the hon. Gentleman set out, Amendment 11 would strengthen the hand of the judicial commissioner, and I have some sympathy with that. My concern is that his proposed new subsection (4) says:
“The Judicial Commissioner, on reviewing any notifications received under subsection (2), must cancel the category authorisation if the Commissioner considers that section 226A no longer applies to any dataset that falls within the category of datasets”.
I wonder why he thinks that the wrongful inclusion of one individual dataset in the category would invalidate the category as a whole, because that seems to me to be the effect of what that part of his amendment would do.
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