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NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2004 - SECT 11

Meaning of law enforcement interests

    In this Act, law enforcement interests includes interests in the following:

  (a)   avoiding disruption to national and international efforts relating to law enforcement, criminal intelligence, criminal investigation, foreign intelligence and security intelligence;

  (b)   protecting the technologies and methods used to collect, analyse, secure or otherwise deal with, criminal intelligence, foreign intelligence or security intelligence;

  (c)   the protection and safety of informants and of persons associated with informants;

  (d)   ensuring that intelligence and law enforcement agencies are not discouraged from giving information to a nation's government and government agencies.



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