New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2007 - SECT 45A

45A Annual report of Department

(1) The annual report of the Department of Justice must set out the following in relation to surveillance device warrants and retrieval warrants for the period to which the report relates--

(a) the number of matters in which the advice of the Attorney General has been sought in respect of a prospective application for a warrant,

(b) the number of applications for a warrant that have been made,

(c) the number of applications in which the Attorney General was heard before the Judge or Magistrate in the determination of the application,

(d) the number of applications that were withdrawn before being determined,

(e) the number of applications that were refused,

(f) the number of warrants in respect of which a direction was given under section 52(1) to supply information to a person about the warrant or use of a surveillance device (or both).

Note : References to the Attorney General in this subsection include persons acting under delegation from the Attorney General. See section 49(6) of the Interpretation Act 1987 .

(2) The Attorney General is to ensure that, as far as reasonably practicable, information is provided for the purposes of subsection (1).