Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered ActsThe purposes of this Act are:
(a) to regulate the installation, use, maintenance and retrieval of surveillance devices; and
(b) to restrict the use, communication and publication of information obtained through the use of surveillance devices or otherwise connected with surveillance device operations; and
(c) to establish procedures for law enforcement officers to obtain warrants or emergency authorisations for the installation, use, maintenance and retrieval of surveillance devices in criminal investigations extending beyond this jurisdiction; and
(d) to recognise warrants and emergency authorisations issued in other jurisdictions; and
(e) to impose requirements for the secure storage and destruction of records, and the making of reports to Judges, magistrates and Parliament, in relation to surveillance device operations.