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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Preservation directions - Retention, copying, etc, of produced record of pathway information

79N: Record of pathway information produced under preservation direction

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"What happens to information collected for an investigation"

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When you produce a record of pathway information because of a preservation direction, an enforcement officer can do a few things. They can keep the original record if it helps with the investigation. They can also make copies of the record. If needed, they can ask you to help make the information in the record usable. You might need to provide more information to help understand the pathway information, like the names of telecommunications service providers involved.

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Part 3Enforcement officers' powers and orders
Preservation directions: Retention, copying, etc, of produced record of pathway information

79NRecord of pathway information produced under preservation direction

  1. When a record of pathway information is produced in compliance with a preservation direction, an appropriate enforcement officer may do any of the following:

  2. retain the original record produced if it is relevant to the investigation:
    1. take copies of the record:
      1. if necessary, require the person producing the record—
        1. to reproduce, in usable form, the pathway information that is in that record; or
          1. to assist any person nominated by the chief executive of the law enforcement agency concerned or by a delegate of that chief executive to reproduce, in usable form, the pathway information that is in that record:
          2. require the person producing the record to provide any related information (for example, the names of any telecommunications service providers involved in transmitting the telecommunication) that is necessary to understand the pathway information.

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