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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 94B

Reports regarding named person warrants

  (1)   The chief officer of an agency to which a named person warrant has been issued must give to the Minister a written report about the action (if any) that has taken place under the warrant.

  (2)   The chief officer must give a report in relation to the warrant within 3 months after the warrant ceases to be in force.

  (3)   The report must contain the following information in relation to each interception:

  (a)   the service to or from which the intercepted communication was made (being a service that the person named in the warrant used, or was likely to use);

  (b)   the reasons it would not have been effective to intercept the communications under a telecommunications service warrant;

  (c)   information about the use made by the agency of information obtained by each interception;

  (d)   information about the communication of such information to persons other than officers of the agency;

  (e)   the number of arrests that have been, or are likely to be, made on the basis of such information;

  (f)   an assessment of the usefulness of information obtained by each interception.



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