New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2007 - SECT 47

47 Register of warrants and emergency authorisations

(1) The chief officer of a law enforcement agency must cause a register of warrants and emergency authorisations to be kept.

(2) The register is to specify, for each warrant issued to a law enforcement officer of the agency--

(a) the date of issue of the warrant, and

(b) the name of the eligible Judge or eligible Magistrate who issued the warrant, and

(c) the name of the law enforcement officer named in the warrant as the person primarily responsible for executing it, and

(d) the relevant offence in relation to which the warrant is issued, and

(e) the period during which the warrant is in force, and

(f) details of any variation or extension of the warrant.

(3) The register is to specify, for each emergency authorisation given to a law enforcement officer of the agency--

(a) the date the emergency authorisation was given, and

(b) the name of the senior officer who gave the emergency authorisation, and

(c) the name of the law enforcement officer to whom the emergency authorisation was given, and

(d) the relevant offence in relation to which the emergency authorisation was given, and

(e) the date on which the application for approval of powers exercised under the emergency authorisation was made.