Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to information or a document that comes to a person's knowledge, or into a person's possession, if:
(a) the information or document relates to:
(i) the contents or substance of a communication that was carried before 1 July 1997; or
(ii) a communication in the course of telecommunications carriage, where the communication began before 1 July 1997; or
(iii) telecommunications services supplied, or intended to be supplied, before 1 July 1997; or
(b) both:
(i) the information or document relates to the affairs or personal particulars (including any unlisted telephone number or any address) of another person; and
(ii) the information or document came to the first - mentioned person's knowledge, or into the first - mentioned person's possession, before 1 July 1997.
(2) Despite the repeal of the Telecommunications Act 1991 by this Act, section 88 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 continues to apply to the person, on and after 1 July 1997, in relation to the information or document.
(3) An expression used in this section and in section 88 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 has the same meaning in this section as it has in section 88 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 .