SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 61 Report on inspection

SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 61

  (1)   The Ombudsman must make a written report to the Minister at 6 monthly intervals on the results of each inspection under section   55.

  (2)   The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the Minister receives it.

  (3)   If the report relates, in whole or in part, to an inspection under section   55 of compliance by the Australian Crime Commission with the surveillance device laws of a State or Territory, the Minister must, as soon as practicable after the report is laid before each House of the Parliament, send a copy of the report to the Minister of that State or Territory with responsibility for the surveillance device laws of that State or Territory.

Part   5.3 information or Part   9.10 information

  (4)   The Minister must exclude information from the report before the Minister causes a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament if the Minister is satisfied that the information is Part   5.3 information or Part   9.10 information.

  (5)   If the Minister must send a copy of the report to a Minister of a State under subsection   (3), subsection   (4) does not require the Minister to exclude from that copy information that the Minister must exclude from the copy of the report the Minister causes to be laid before each House of the Parliament.

  (6)   If:

  (a)   because of subsection   (4), information has not been included in a copy of a report laid before each House of the Parliament under subsection   (2); and

  (b)   the Ombudsman makes a report (the later report ) to the Minister under subsection   (1);

the Minister must, before causing a copy of the later report to be laid before each House of the Parliament:

  (c)   reconsider whether the information is Part   5.3 information or Part   9.10 information; and

  (d)   if the Minister is satisfied that the information is not Part   5.3 information or Part   9.10 information--include the information in the copy of the later report before causing it to be laid before each House of the Parliament under subsection   (2).