The Surveillance Devices Act 1999 applies to a communication by audio link or audio visual link, a communication in the circumstances referred to in section 42R(1)(b) or 42RB(1)(b), or a document transmitted, between an accused and his or her legal representative in accordance with this Part as if—
S. 42T(a) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 54.45).
(a) the communication were a private conversation within the meaning of that Act to which the parties were the accused and his or her legal representative; and
S. 42T(b) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 54.45).
(b) any data, text or visual images in the transmitted document were words spoken to or by a person in a private conversation within the meaning of that Act to which the parties were the accused and his or her legal representative; and
(c) references in that Act to the use of a listening device to overhear, record, monitor or listen to a private conversation included, in relation to a transmitted document, references to reading the document.
Division 4—General
S. 42U inserted by No.
4/1997
s. 3.