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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Preservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings - Invalidity, offences, and immunities, etc - Offences relating to disclosure

88T: Definitions for sections 88U to 88W

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"What special words mean in sections 88U to 88W"

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When you read sections 88U to 88W, you need to know what some words mean. You are affected by a preservation direction if you are the person it was made against, or if you work for that person. You disclose information if you share what it means or any part of it.

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Part 3APreservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings
Invalidity, offences, and immunities, etc: Offences relating to disclosure

88TDefinitions for sections 88U to 88W

  1. In sections 88U to 88W,—

  2. a person is affected by a preservation direction only if the person is—
    1. the person against whom the direction was made; or
      1. an officer, employee, or agent of the person against whom the direction was made; and
      2. a person discloses information if the person discloses—
        1. the substance, meaning, or purport of that information; or
          1. any part of that information.

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