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SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Application
4AA. Authority required for some investigations
4A. State police working for Australian Crime Commission
PART 2 -- Regulation of installation and use of surveillance devices
5. Regulation of use, installation and maintenance of listening devices
6. Regulation of use, installation and maintenance of optical surveillance devices
7. Regulation of use, installation and maintenance of tracking devices
8. Technical assistance
PART 3 -- Restriction on publication or communication of private conversations and activities
9. Prohibition of publication or communication of private conversations or activities
10. Admissibility in criminal proceedings of information inadvertently obtained
11. Presumption as to evidence obtained under warrant or emergency authorisation
PART 4 -- Warrants and emergency authorisations
Division 1 -- Judicial warrants
12. Interpretation of “court”
13. Warrants for use etc. of surveillance devices
14. Warrants for maintenance and retrieval of certain tracking devices
15. Applications for warrants
16. Radio/telephone applications for warrants
17. Warrants issued following radio/telephone applications
18. Restriction on further radio/telephone applications
18A. Enhanced powers concerning surveillance devices
19. Extension of warrants
Division 2 -- Emergency authorisations
20. Emergency use of surveillance devices
21. Emergency authorisations
22. Retrieval of surveillance devices installed under emergency authorisations
Division 3 -- Confidentiality
23. Confidentiality
PART 5 -- Use of surveillance devices in the public interest
Division 1 -- General
24. Interpretation
25. Unlawful act
Division 2 -- Use of listening devices and optical surveillance devices in the public interest
26. Use of listening devices in the public interest
27. Use of optical surveillance devices in the public interest
Division 3 -- Emergency use of listening devices and optical surveillance devices in the public interest
28. Emergency use of listening devices in the public interest
29. Emergency use of optical surveillance devices in the public interest
30. Report to a judge
Division 4 -- Publication or communication in the public interest
31. Order allowing publication or communication in the public interest
32. Application for a publication order
33. Confidentiality
PART 6 -- Offences and enforcement provisions
34. Possession of surveillance device for unlawful use
35. Unlawful removal or retrieval of surveillance device
36. Power to search
37. Report of finding surveillance device
38. Time limit for prosecutions
40. Forfeiture
PART 7 -- Miscellaneous
41. Dealing with records obtained by surveillance devices
42. Exemption from personal liability
43. Annual reports
43A. Reports by Royal Commissions
44. Regulations
Other notes
Defined terms
Compilation table
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