Modification of warrants

Part of Investigatory Powers Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 14 April 2016.

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Photo of Keir Starmer Keir Starmer Shadow Minister (Home Office) 12:00, 14 April 2016

Is there a reason why paragraph 5.61 states that a

“targeted warrant that relates to just one specified person, organisation… cannot be modified”,

which is pregnant with the idea that there is a different position when it is not just one? Was that a carefully drafted sentence that means exactly what it says, in which case what the hon. and learned Gentleman has just said has limited it, or was a wider application intended?