Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner (Consequential Amendments) Act 2006 (86 of 2006)

Schedule 1   Consequential amendments

Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

94   After subsection 81(1)

Insert:

(1A) The Integrity Commissioner must cause:

(a) particulars of each telephone application for a Part VI warrant made by the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (in this subsection called the agency ); and

(b) in relation to each application by the agency for a Part VI warrant, a statement as to whether:

(i) the application was withdrawn or refused; or

(ii) a warrant was issued on the application; and

(c) in relation to each Part VI warrant whose authority is exercised by the agency, particulars of:

(i) the warrant; and

(ii) the day on which, and the time at which, each interception under the warrant began; and

(iii) the duration of each interception; and

(iv) the name of the person who carried out each interception; and

(v) in relation to a named person warrant - each service to or from which communications have been intercepted under the warrant; and

(d) in relation to each restricted record that has at any time been in the possession of the agency, particulars of:

(i) if the restricted record is a record obtained by an interception under a warrant issued to the agency - that warrant; and

(ii) each occasion when the restricted record came (whether by its making or otherwise) to be in the possession of the agency; and

(iii) each occasion (if any) when the restricted record ceased (whether by its destruction or otherwise) to be in the possession of the agency; and

(iv) each agency or other body (if any) from or to which, or other person (if any) from or to whom, the agency received or supplied the restricted record; and

(e) particulars of each use made by the agency of lawfully obtained information; and

(f) particulars of each communication of lawfully obtained information by an officer of the agency to a person or body other than such an officer; and

(g) particulars of each occasion when, to the knowledge of an officer of the agency, lawfully obtained information was given in evidence in a relevant proceeding in relation to the agency;

to be recorded in writing or by means of a computer as soon as practicable after the happening of the events to which the particulars relate or the statement relates, as the case may be.


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