AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34AB Meaning of questioning material and subject
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34AB
Meaning of questioning material and subject(1) Questioning material is:
(a) any information given by a person while before a prescribed authority for questioning under a questioning warrant; or
(b) a record or other thing produced by a person while before a prescribed authority for questioning under a questioning warrant; or
(c) any information that might enable a person, who has appeared before a prescribed authority for questioning under a questioning warrant, to be identified; or
(d) the fact that a person has appeared, or is required to appear, before a prescribed authority for questioning under a questioning warrant.
(2) To avoid doubt, information, a record or a thing is not covered by paragraph (1)(a) or (b) to the extent that it is obtained otherwise than before a prescribed authority under a questioning warrant.
Example: Before a record is produced before a prescribed authority, a copy of the record is obtained when executing a search warrant. The copy obtained under the search warrant is not questioning material.
(3) The subject is:
(a) for questioning material--the person referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d); or
(b) for derivative material--the person who is the subject for
the questioning material from which the derivative material was obtained.