The competent authority shall, before issuing any direction under Rule (3), consider possibility of acquiring the necessary information by other means and the direction under Rule (3) shall be issued only when it is not possible to acquire the information by any other reasonable means.
Rule 7: Contents for direction
Any direction issued by the competent authority under Rule (3) shall contain reasons for such direction and a copy of such direction shall be forwarded to the Review Committee within a period of seven working days.
Rule 6: Interception or monitoring or decryption of information by a State beyond its jurisdiction
Notwithstanding anything contained in Rule (3), if a State Government or Union territory Administration requires any interception or monitoring or decryption of information beyond its territorial jurisdiction, the Secretary in-charge of the Home Department in that State or Union territory, as the case may be, shall make a request to the Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India for issuing direction to the appropriate authority for such interception or monitoring or decryption of information.
Rule 5: Issue of decryption direction by competent authority
The competent authority may, under Rule (3), give any decryption direction to the decryption key holder for decryption of any information involving a computer resource or part thereof.
Rule 4: Authorisation of agency of Government
The competent authority may authorise an agency of the Government to intercept, monitor or decrypt information generated, transmitted received or stored in any computer resource for the purpose specified in sub-section (1) of section 69 of the Act.