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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

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

79H: Preservation directions against network operators relating to traffic data, etc

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"Orders to save internet and phone records"

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You can get a direction to keep some information. This is called a preservation direction. It can ask a network operator to keep a record of traffic data or telecommunications content. They only have to keep the information if they normally store it as part of their business.

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Part 3Enforcement officers' powers and orders
Preservation directions: Preservation directions: making, duration, and other matters

79HPreservation directions against network operators relating to traffic data, etc

  1. A preservation direction may require a network operator to preserve a record of traffic data, preserve a record of the content of telecommunications, or produce a record of pathway information only to the extent that the network operator stores the record concerned in the ordinary course of business.

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