Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act:
"Communications Access Coordinator" means:
(a) the Secretary of the Attorney - General's Department; or
(b) if a person or body is covered by an instrument made under subsection (2)--that person or body.
(2) The Attorney - General may, by legislative instrument, specify one or more persons or bodies, or one or more classes of persons or bodies, for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of Communications Access Coordinator in subsection (1).
(2A) The Attorney - General must only specify a person or class of persons in an instrument made under subsection (2) if the person is an APS employee, or the class of persons consists wholly of APS employees, in the Attorney - General's Department.
Instrument must specify certain functions or powers
(2B) An instrument made under subsection (2) must specify the functions or powers of a Communications Access Coordinator under this Act or any other Act that a person or body, or a class of persons or bodies, specified in the instrument may perform or exercise.
(2C) A person or body, or a class of persons or bodies, specified in an instrument made under subsection (2) may only perform the functions or exercise the powers specified in that instrument in relation to that person or body, or class of persons or bodies.
(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, an act done by or in relation to a Communications Access Coordinator is taken to be an act done by or in relation to the Coordinator on behalf of all the interception agencies and all the enforcement agencies.