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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers, transitional provisions, and review provision - Transitional provisions

344: Disclosure of prior warrants in applications for surveillance device warrants made in transitional period

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"Telling about old warrants when asking to spy during a special 3-month period"

When you apply for a surveillance device warrant during a special time, you need to tell them about prior warrants. This special time starts when a specific part of the law, section 49(3)(a), begins and lasts for 3 months. During this time, the law is applied a bit differently, so you must disclose warrants you got since that part of the law started, not just the ones from the last 3 months.

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Part 5Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers, transitional provisions, and review provision: Transitional provisions

344Disclosure of prior warrants in applications for surveillance device warrants made in transitional period

  1. In the period commencing on the date of commencement of section 49(3)(a) and ending 3 months later, section 49(3)(a) must be read as if for the words within the previous 3 months there were substituted the words since the commencement of this subsection.