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Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013

Registration, enforcement, and miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous provisions - Costs

115: Costs incurred in assisting surveillance agencies

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"Surveillance agencies must pay network operators for their help"

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You need to know that surveillance agencies have to pay for help they get from network operators or service providers under section 24. They must pay the actual and reasonable costs. The agency must pay by a certain date, which is at least one month after they get the invoice. You should look at what happens when a network operator helps a surveillance agency. The agency pays the costs, but there are some exceptions. This rule does not apply if the network operator is only doing what they have to do under section 11. There is another important thing to know. This rule is also subject to section 116. This means that you have to consider both rules when you think about costs and surveillance agencies.

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Part 4Registration, enforcement, and miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous provisions: Costs

115Costs incurred in assisting surveillance agencies

  1. A surveillance agency must pay for the actual and reasonable costs incurred by a network operator or a service provider in providing assistance to the agency under section 24.

  2. A surveillance agency must pay the costs referred to in subsection (1) by the date specified for payment, whether in an invoice or other appropriate document given to the agency by a network operator or a service provider, being a date not less than 1 month after the date of the invoice or other appropriate document.

  3. This section—

  4. does not apply to a network operator that is complying with duties only under section 11; and
    1. is subject to section 116.