Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Attorney - General may, in the Attorney - General's discretion, authorise an eligible law enforcement officer, in writing, to apply for a computer access warrant under section 27A of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 if the Attorney - General is satisfied that:
(a) an investigation, or investigative proceeding, relating to a criminal matter involving an offence against the law of a foreign country (the requesting country ) that is punishable by a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 3 years or more, imprisonment for life or the death penalty has commenced in the requesting country; and
(b) the requesting country requests the Attorney - General to arrange for access to data held in a computer (the target computer ); and
(c) the requesting country has given appropriate undertakings in relation to:
(i) ensuring that data obtained as a result of access under the warrant will only be used for the purpose for which it is communicated to the requesting country; and
(ii) the destruction of a document or other thing containing data obtained as a result of access under the warrant; and
(iii) any other matter the Attorney - General considers appropriate.
(2) The target computer may be any one or more of the following:
(a) a particular computer;
(b) a computer on particular premises;
(c) a computer associated with, used by or likely to be used by, a person (whose identity may or may not be known).
(3) In this section:
"computer" has the same meaning as in the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 .
"data" has the same meaning as in the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 .
"data held in a computer" has the same meaning as in the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 .
"eligible law enforcement officer" means a person mentioned in column 3 of item 5 of the table in subsection 6A(6), or in column 3 of item 5 of the table in subsection 6A(7), of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 .