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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests to New Zealand - Requests for surveillance device warrants - Dealing with material collected under warrant

50P: Sections 50Q to 50T subject to Judge’s order or direction about destruction or retention of material

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"A Judge decides what happens to material collected under a warrant."

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You need to follow rules about destroying or keeping material collected under a warrant. These rules apply to sections 50Q to 50T. A District Court Judge can give an order to destroy records of communications or information. You also need to follow a Judge's direction about destroying or keeping material. This direction is given after a report about a surveillance device warrant is received. The Judge's order or direction is important and you must follow it.

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Part 3Requests to New Zealand
Requests for surveillance device warrants: Dealing with material collected under warrant

50PSections 50Q to 50T subject to Judge’s order or direction about destruction or retention of material

  1. Sections 50Q to 50T are subject to—

  2. any order that a District Court Judge gives under section 140 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, as applied by section 50L, requiring a record of a communication or information made in consequence of surveillance to be destroyed; and
    1. any direction that a Judge gives under section 61(1)(a) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, as applied by section 50H, after receiving a surveillance device warrant report relating to a warrant.

      Notes
      • Section 50P: inserted, on , by section 40 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).