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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

50S: Retention and destruction of raw surveillance data, etc, that is specified evidential material relating to New Zealand offence

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"Rules for keeping or destroying crime information gathered by surveillance in New Zealand"

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You need to follow rules about keeping or destroying certain information. This information is called raw surveillance data and it relates to a crime in New Zealand. It also includes excerpts from this data and information obtained from it. You have to keep this information according to sections 63 and 64 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. These rules apply if the information is not sent to a foreign country. When following these rules, some words have special meanings, like "specified evidential material". This special material is information that someone gets when investigating a crime in New Zealand using a surveillance device warrant. You must apply the rules from the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 in a specific way when dealing with this material.

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

50SRetention and destruction of raw surveillance data, etc, that is specified evidential material relating to New Zealand offence

  1. Sections 63 and 64 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 apply to—

  2. specified evidential material relating to a New Zealand offence to the extent that the material—
    1. is raw surveillance data; and
      1. is not the subject of a direction referred to in section 50R(1) (relating to sending material to a foreign country); and
      2. excerpts from that data; and
        1. information obtained from that data that is not itself raw surveillance data.

          1. For that purpose, section 63 of that Act is to be applied as if a reference in that section to a direction given under section 61(1)(a) of that Act were a reference to that provision as applied by section 50H.

          2. In this section, specified evidential material, in relation to a New Zealand offence, means evidential material that a person obtains in relation to an offence against the law of New Zealand in the course of carrying out activities authorised by a surveillance device warrant issued under this subpart.

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