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SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 1999 - SECT 9

Regulation of installation, use and maintenance of data surveillance devices by law enforcement officers

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), a law enforcement officer must not knowingly install, use or maintain a data surveillance device to record or monitor the input of information into, or the output of information from, a computer without the express or implied consent of the person on whose behalf that information is being input or output.

Penalty:     Level 8 imprisonment (1 year maximum) or a level 8 fine (120 penalty units maximum) or both.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to—

S. 9(2)(a) amended by No. 26/2004 s. 7(b).

        (a)     the installation, use or maintenance of a data surveillance device in accordance with a warrant, emergency authorisation, corresponding warrant or corresponding emergency authorisation; or

        (b)     the installation, use or maintenance of a data surveillance device in accordance with a law of the Commonwealth.

S. 10 repealed by No. 26/2004 s. 7(e).

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Pt 2A (Heading and ss 9A9D) inserted by No. 70/2006 s. 3.

Part 2A—Workplace privacy

S. 9A
inserted by No. 70/2006 s. 3.



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