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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests to New Zealand - Requests for surveillance device warrants - Other

50V: Annual reporting by Commissioner of Police

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"The Police Commissioner's Annual Report: What They Must Tell Us"

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The Commissioner of Police must include certain information in their annual report. You will find this report prepared for the purposes of section 43 of the Public Finance Act 1989. This information includes the number of applications granted or refused. The Commissioner must also report the number of surveillance device warrants issued. You can think of a surveillance device as a tool to gather information, like a camera or a tracking device. The report must detail the number of these devices used and for how long. The Commissioner's report must also include information about people charged in other countries. This is where evidence collected using surveillance devices in New Zealand helped with the case. If a Judge reports any breaches of surveillance device warrant conditions, the Commissioner must include this in the report. A kind of surveillance device can be an interception device, a visual surveillance device, or a tracking device. The Commissioner does not have to report on certain types of surveillance in their annual report.

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Part 3Requests to New Zealand
Requests for surveillance device warrants: Other

50VAnnual reporting by Commissioner of Police

  1. The Commissioner must include the following information in every annual report that the Commissioner prepares for the purposes of section 43 of the Public Finance Act 1989:

  2. the number of applications under this subpart that were granted or refused in the period covered by the report:
    1. the number of surveillance device warrants issued under this subpart in the period covered by the report that authorised the use of a surveillance device, and the number in respect of each kind of surveillance device:
      1. the number of surveillance device warrants issued under this subpart during the period covered by the report that authorised entry into private premises:
        1. for each kind of surveillance device authorised by a surveillance device warrant issued under this subpart during the period covered by the report, the numbers of that kind of device used—
          1. for a period of no more than 24 hours:
            1. for a period of more than 24 hours but no more than 3 days:
              1. for a period of more than 3 days but no more than 7 days:
                1. for a period of more than 7 days but no more than 21 days:
                  1. for a period of more than 21 days but no more than 60 days:
                  2. the number of persons charged in criminal proceedings instituted in a foreign country where the collection of evidential material relevant to those proceedings was, so far as the Commissioner is aware, significantly assisted by carrying out activities under the authority of a surveillance device warrant issued under this subpart in the period covered by the report:
                    1. if a Judge has reported to the Commissioner under section 61(1) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (as applied by section 50H) about a breach of any of the conditions of a surveillance device warrant issued under this subpart,—
                      1. the number of those reports; and
                        1. details of the breaches reported.

                        2. This section does not require the Commissioner to include in any annual report information about any prescribed surveillance, or surveillance of a prescribed kind, in any prescribed area or an area of a prescribed kind.

                        3. In this section, kind of surveillance device means any of the following:

                        4. an interception device:
                          1. a visual surveillance device:
                            1. a tracking device.

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