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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 187N

Review of operation of this Part

  (1)   The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security must review the operation of this Part.

  (1A)   The review:

  (a)   must start on or before the second anniversary of the end of the implementation phase; and

  (b)   must be concluded on or before the third anniversary of the end of the implementation phase.

  (2)   The Committee must give the Minister a written report of the review.

  (3)   Until the review is completed, the head (however described) of an enforcement agency must keep:

  (a)   all of the documents that he or she is required to retain under section   185; and

  (b)   all of the information that he or she is required, by paragraphs 186(1)(e) to (k), to include in a report under subsection   186(1);

relating to the period starting on the commencement of this Part and ending when the review is completed.

  (4)   Until the review is completed, the Director - General of Security must keep:

  (a)   all of the authorisations made under Division   3 of Part   4 - 1; and

  (b)   all of the information that he or she is required, by paragraphs 94(2A)(c) to (j) of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 , to include in a report referred to in subsection   94(1) of that Act;

relating to the period starting on the commencement of this Part and ending when the review is completed.

  (5)   Subsections   (3) and (4) do not limit any other obligation to keep information under this Act or another law.


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