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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Preservation directions - Preservation directions: making, duration, and other matters

79F: Commissioner may make preservation direction

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"The Commissioner can give a direction to keep information safe under certain conditions."

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The Commissioner can make a preservation direction against a person if they are satisfied that certain conditions are met. You can find these conditions in section 79E. The Commissioner can only make this direction if someone applies under this part of the law and the conditions are satisfied.

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Preservation directions: Preservation directions: making, duration, and other matters

79FCommissioner may make preservation direction

  1. On an application made under this subpart, the Commissioner may make a preservation direction against a person if satisfied that the conditions specified in section 79E for making the direction are met.

Notes
  • Section 79F: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).