Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 154A

    In this Part:

"consultant" means a person engaged under section   27A.

"contravention" , in relation to a law, includes an offence against section   11.1, 11.4 or 11.5 of the Criminal Code that relates to an offence against that law.

"data" includes:

  (a)   information in any form; or

  (b)   any program (or part of a program).

"data held in a computer" includes:

  (a)   data held in any removable data storage device for the time being held in a computer; or

  (b)   data held in a data storage device on a computer network of which the computer forms a part.

"data storage device" means a thing containing, or designed to contain, data for use by a computer.

"evidential material" means a document or other thing that may afford evidence relating to:

  (a)   a contravention of this Act, a gas market instrument or the consumer data rules; or

  (b)   a contravention of Part   20 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 ; or

  (c)   a contravention of Part   9 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 ; or

  (d)   a contravention of section   137.1, 137.2 or 149.1 of the Criminal Code that relates to this Part.

"executing officer" , for a search warrant, means:

  (a)   the inspector named in the warrant as being responsible for executing the warrant; or

  (b)   if that inspector does not intend to be present at the execution of the warrant--another inspector whose name has been written in the warrant by the inspector so named; or

  (c)   another inspector whose name has been written in the warrant by the inspector last named in the warrant.

"inspector" means a person appointed as an inspector under section   154B.

"occupier" , in relation to premises, includes a person present at the premises who apparently represents the occupier.

"officer assisting" , for a search warrant, means:

  (a)   an inspector who is assisting in executing the warrant; or

  (b)   a person authorised under section   154K in relation to the warrant.

"premises" means:

  (a)   an area of land or any other place (whether or not it is enclosed or built on); or

  (b)   a building or other structure; or

  (c)   a vehicle, vessel or aircraft; or

  (d)   a part of any such premises.

"search warrant" means a warrant issued by a magistrate under section   154X or signed by a magistrate under section   154Y.

"thing" includes a thing in electronic or magnetic form.