31CDestruction of records

31C Destruction of records

(1) If: (a) information, or a record, that was obtained, in the course of developing or testing technologies or interception capabilities, by interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system is in a security authority’s possession; and (b) the information or record is no longer required in relation to the development or testing; the head (however described) of the security authority, or a person acting as that head, must cause the information or record to be destroyed as soon as practicable. (2) The reference in paragraph (1)(a) to interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system includes a reference to the accessing of the communications as stored communications after they have ceased to pass over a telecommunications system.