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Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013

Interception capability duties - Reduced duties - Ministerial directions and regulations relating to lower-level compliance duties

16: Overview of sections 17 to 19

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"What the Minister decides about network and service rules"

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You can find out what sections 17 to 19 of the Telecommunications Act are about. The Minister can make decisions about networks or services on application from a surveillance agency. This can change the level of compliance duty for a network or service. You need to know the Minister's decisions can affect how a network or service operates. The Minister can direct that a network or service must follow higher-level compliance duties. This can happen if the network or service is currently subject to lower-level compliance duties. The compliance duties are ranked according to the level of interception capability required. The highest level compliance duty is to comply with certain sections of the Act. Lower level duties include being intercept ready or intercept accessible.

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Part 2Interception capability duties
Reduced duties: Ministerial directions and regulations relating to lower-level compliance duties

16Overview of sections 17 to 19

  1. The purpose of sections 17 to 19 is to enable the Minister, on the application of a surveillance agency, to,—

  2. in the case of a network or service that by the operation of section 13 or 15 is subject to a lower-level compliance duty, direct that the network or service or part of the network or service must instead be subject to a higher-level compliance duty:
    1. direct that an infrastructure-level service or part of that service must be subject to a higher-level compliance duty.

      1. The following duties are ranked according to the level of interception capability that is required to fulfil the duty (with the duty set out in paragraph (a) being the highest level compliance duty):

      2. the duty to comply with sections 9 and 10:
        1. the duty to be intercept ready:
          1. the duty to be intercept accessible.

            1. This overview is by way of explanation only. If any provision of this Part conflicts with this overview, the other provision prevails.