Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1989No. 63, 1989 - SECT 51

51. Section 60 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Managing Director of carrier to be informed of issue or
revocation of certain warrants

"60. (1) Where:

   (a)  a warrant is issued to an agency; and

   (b)  it is proposed, under the warrant, to intercept communications to or
        from a telecommunications service while they are passing over a
        telecommunications system operated by a carrier; the chief officer of
        the agency shall cause:

   (c)  the Managing Director of that carrier to be informed forthwith of the
        issue of the warrant; and

   (d)  a copy of the warrant, certified in writing by a certifying officer of
        the agency to be a true copy of the warrant, to be given as soon as
        practicable to the Managing Director of that carrier.

"(2) Where:

   (a)  the chief officer of an agency causes the Commissioner of Police to be
        notified under paragraph 53 (1) (b) of the issue of a warrant to the
        agency; and (b) under subsection (1) of this section, the chief
        officer has caused the Managing Director of a carrier to be informed
        of the issue of the warrant; the chief officer shall cause a copy of
        the notification to be given as soon as practicable to the Managing
        Director of that carrier.

"(3) Where:

   (a)  the Managing Director of a carrier has been informed, under subsection
        (1), of the issue of a warrant; and

   (b)  the warrant is revoked; the chief officer of the agency to which the
        warrant was issued shall cause:

   (c)  the Managing Director of that carrier to be informed forthwith of the
        revocation; and

   (d)  a copy of the instrument of revocation, certified in writing by a
        certifying officer of the agency to be a true copy of the instrument,
        to be given as soon as practicable to the Managing Director of that
        carrier.".