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

Schedule 10   Surveillance devices

Surveillance Devices Act 2004

22   After subsection 39(3A)

Insert:

(3B) If a control order is in force in relation to a person, a law enforcement officer may, with the written permission of an appropriate authorising officer, use a tracking device without a warrant to obtain information relating to the person for any of the following purposes:

(a) protecting the public from a terrorist act;

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

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

(d) determining whether the control order, or any succeeding control order, has been, or is being, complied with.


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