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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Preservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings - Preservation directions: making, initial duration, and other matters

88F: Preservation directions against network operators relating to traffic data, etc

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"Orders to save internet and phone data"

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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. The operator only has to keep the information they normally store. The direction can also ask for pathway information. You can find more information about this in the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025.

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Part 3APreservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings
Preservation directions: making, initial duration, and other matters

88FPreservation 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 88F: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).