Smith said she would not answer questions "about the timings of any specific authorisations she may or may not have given the security service".
No comment When the Guardian asked Smith what permission she gave MI5 to exchange information about Jamil Rahman, Gulam Mustafa or Faisal Mostafa with the Bangladeshi authorities, she replied, through a spokeswoman, that she would not answer questions "about the timings of any specific authorisations she may or may not have given the security service".
Section 7 is entitled Authorisation of Acts outside the British Islands, and says: "If, apart from this section, a person would be liable in the United Kingdom for any act done outside the British Islands, he shall not be so liable if the act is one which is authorised to be done by virtue of an authorisation given by the secretary of state under this section".
Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican, put the chances of an authorisation vote in the House of Representatives at 50-50.
A comparative assessment may be initiated by an application for the authorisation of a new candidate product, for the renewal of an existing authorisation, or for the amendment of an authorisation for new uses of a candidate product.
The concept involved telephone call centres and the Internet and evaluation of symptoms, provision of advice and authorisation of antiviral medication in appropriate clinical circumstances.
Records of such authorisations are not maintained centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost".
Their actions followed revelations that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had followed two journalists for nine days without any kind of authorisation and came as the RCMP is engaged in legal action aimed at forcing Vice Media to hand over background materials relating to a series of stories on a suspected terrorist.
Monitor carried out further investigations and concluded the hospital trust was in significant breach of its terms of authorisation.
Section 10 requires the authorisation of any prosecution by the director of the appropriate prosecution agency before a case can go ahead; this is a shift from the old regime, which required the consent of the Attorney General for England and Wales.
