NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2004 - SECT 11 Meaning of law enforcement interests

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION (CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2004 - SECT 11

    In this Act, law enforcement interests includes interests in the following:

  (a)   avoiding disruption to national and international efforts relating to law enforcement, criminal intelligence, criminal investigation, foreign intelligence and security intelligence;

  (b)   protecting the technologies and methods used to collect, analyse, secure or otherwise deal with, criminal intelligence, foreign intelligence or security intelligence;

  (c)   the protection and safety of informants and of persons associated with informants;

  (d)   ensuring that intelligence and law enforcement agencies are not discouraged from giving information to a nation's government and government agencies.