Queensland Consolidated Acts

INVASION OF PRIVACY ACT 1971 - SECT 42

42 Reference to listening devices and private conversations

(1) A reference in this part to a listening device does not include a reference to a hearing aid or similar device used by a person with impaired hearing to overcome the impairment and to permit the person only to hear sounds ordinarily audible to the human ear.

(2) A reference in this part to a party to a private conversation is a reference—

(a) to a person by or to whom words are spoken in the course of a private conversation; and

(b) to a person who, with the consent, express or implied, of any of the persons by or to whom words are spoken in the course of a private conversation, overhears, records, monitors or listens to those words.