Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2016 (82 of 2016)

Schedule 10   Surveillance devices

Surveillance Devices Act 2004

1   After paragraph 3(a)

Insert:

(aa) to establish procedures for law enforcement officers to obtain warrants for the installation and use of surveillance devices in cases where a control order is in force, and the use of a surveillance device would be likely to substantially assist in:

(i) protecting the public from a terrorist act; or

(ii) preventing the provision of support for, or the facilitation of, a terrorist act; or

(iii) preventing the provision of support for, or the facilitation of, the engagement in a hostile activity in a foreign country; or

(iv) determining whether the control order, or any succeeding control order, has been, or is being, complied with; and

(ab) to establish procedures for law enforcement officers to obtain tracking device authorisations for the use of tracking devices in cases where a control order is in force in relation to a person, and the use of a tracking device is to obtain information relating to the person for any of the following purposes:

(i) protecting the public from a terrorist act;

(ii) preventing the provision of support for, or the facilitation of, a terrorist act;

(iii) preventing the provision of support for, or the facilitation of, the engagement in a hostile activity in a foreign country;

(iv) determining whether the control order, or any succeeding control order, has been, or is being, complied with; and