Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Despite subsection 127(1), a designated officer, or an employee of a carrier, may provide technical assistance to an officer or staff member of a criminal law - enforcement agency who is exercising the authority conferred by a stored communications warrant.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the provision of technical assistance includes (but is not limited to):
(a) the doing of any act in connection with:
(i) the installation of equipment for the purposes of accessing stored communications in accordance with a stored communications warrant; or
(ii) the maintenance, testing or use of such equipment; or
(iii) the removal of such equipment; and
(b) the doing of any act involved in the accessing of a stored communication under a stored communications warrant, to the extent that the act is incidental to the doing of an act referred to in paragraph (a).
(3) The chief officer of a criminal law - enforcement agency or a person who is an approving officer for a criminal law - enforcement agency under subsection 127(3) may, in writing, declare persons to be designated officers for the purposes of this section.