Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021 (98 of 2021)
Schedule 1 Data disruption
Surveillance Devices Act 2004
49 After subsection 65(1A)
Insert:
(1B) If:
(a) data is disrupted purportedly under:
(i) a data disruption warrant; or
(ii) an emergency authorisation for disruption of data held in a computer; and
(b) there is a defect or irregularity in relation to the warrant or emergency authorisation; and
(c) but for that defect or irregularity, the warrant or emergency authorisation would be a sufficient authority for disrupting the data;
disruption of the data is taken to be as valid as if the warrant or emergency authorisation did not have that defect or irregularity.