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  Investigatory Powers Bill - Interception and Examination Warrants - Economic and National Security Grounds - Persons Outside British Islands
  
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  @ MP voted aye against allowing warrants permitting obtaining and examining the content of communications on economic and national security grounds where the information sought relates to the acts or intentions of persons outside the British Islands. 
  
  @ MP voted no to allow warrants permitting obtaining and examining the content of communications on economic and national security grounds where the information sought relates to the acts or intentions of persons outside the British Islands.  
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to allow warrants permitting obtaining and examining the content of communications on economic and national security grounds where the information sought relates to the acts or intentions of persons outside the British Islands.  
  
  MPs were considering the Investigatory Powers Bill[1]. 
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 312, page 14, line 22, leave out paragraph (c). 
  
  An explanatory note covering this and another related amendment[2] stated:
  
  :These amendments would require that there is reasonable suspicion of serious crime for a warrant authorising interception and delete the separate subsection relating to economic well-being of the UK
  
  Had the amendment not been rejected it would have impacted Clause 18(2)[3] of the Bill which stated:
  
  : (2) A targeted interception warrant or targeted examination warrant is necessary on grounds falling within this section if it is necessaryâ
  :(a) in the interests of national security,
  :(b) for the purpose of preventing or detecting serious crime, or
  :(c) in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom so
  far as those interests are also relevant to the interests of national
  security (but see subsection (4)). 
  Subsection (4) referred to stated:
  : (4) A warrant may be considered necessary as mentioned in subsection (2)(c) only if the information which it is considered necessary to obtain is information relating to the acts or intentions of persons outside the British Islands. 
  
  
  âBritish Islandsâ means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. [4]
  
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers.html Parliament's webpage on the Investigatory Powers Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0002/amend/investigatory_day_rep_0603.22-28.html Page of amendment papers including amendment 312, and the related explanatory statement accompanying amendment 313] 
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0002/cbill_2016-20170002_en_3.htm#pt2-ch1-pb2-l1g18 Clause 18 of the Investigatory Powers Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [4] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/schedule/1 Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978]
  
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