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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Production orders

75A: Production orders against network operators relating to traffic data, etc

You could also call this:

"Getting records from phone or internet companies"

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You can get a production order that tells a network operator to give you a record. This record can be about traffic data or what people say when they use telecommunications. The network operator only has to give you the record if they normally keep it as part of their business.

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Part 3Enforcement officers' powers and orders
Production orders

75AProduction orders against network operators relating to traffic data, etc

  1. A production order may require a network operator to produce a record of traffic data or of the content of telecommunications only to the extent that the network operator stores that record in the ordinary course of its business.

Notes
  • Section 75A: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).