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Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013

Registration, enforcement, and miscellaneous provisions - General information-gathering powers

77: Designated officer may require information in order to assist surveillance agency

You could also call this:

"Someone might ask you for information to help keep people safe and follow the rules."

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You can be asked to give information to help a surveillance agency. A designated officer can ask you for this information in writing. They can ask you to give them documents or information. You might be asked to help make the information usable. This is so the surveillance agency can do its job. The agency's job includes making sure people follow the rules. You have to follow the instructions you are given. A designated officer can ask for information on their own or at the request of a surveillance agency. If they ask at the request of an agency, they must give the information to the agency.

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Part 4Registration, enforcement, and miscellaneous provisions
General information-gathering powers

77Designated officer may require information in order to assist surveillance agency

  1. If a designated officer considers it necessary or desirable for any specified purpose, the designated officer may, by written notice served on any network operator, require the operator—

  2. to supply to the designated officer or a surveillance agency any information or class of information specified in the notice; or
    1. to produce to the designated officer or a surveillance agency, or to a person specified in the notice acting on the agency's behalf, any document or class of documents specified in the notice; or
      1. if necessary, to reproduce, or assist in reproducing, in usable form, information recorded or stored in any document or class of documents specified in the notice.

        1. In subsection (1), specified purpose means the purpose of assisting any surveillance agency to do 1 or more of the following:

        2. enforce compliance with the duties under this Act relating to interception capability:
          1. execute an interception warrant or any other lawful interception authority:
            1. otherwise perform or exercise any of its functions, powers, or duties under this Act in relation to interception capability or an interception warrant or any other lawful interception authority.

              1. A network operator must comply with the notice in the manner specified in the notice.

              2. A designated officer may exercise the power under subsection (1) at the request of a surveillance agency (in which case, the officer must promptly supply information or documents obtained under subsection (1) to the surveillance agency).