Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (39 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Data retention

Part 3   Application provisions

8   Reducing the period for keeping information or documents

(1) A service provider must not, before the commencement Part 5-1A of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 as amended by this Act, reduce the period for which it keeps or causes to be kept any information or document that the service provider will, after that commencement, be required by that Part to keep or cause to be kept.

(2) This item is taken to be a civil penalty provision for the purposes of the Telecommunications Act 1997, as if it had been so declared by a provision of that Act.