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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 107R Revoking a foreign preservation notice

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 107R

Revoking a foreign preservation notice

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an entity requests under section   107P the Australian Federal Police to arrange for the preservation of stored communications that are held by a carrier; and

  (b)   in response to the request, the Australian Federal Police gives a foreign preservation notice to the carrier in relation to those stored communications under subsection   107N(1); and

  (c)   during the period of 180 days starting on the day the carrier was given the notice, the entity did not make an access request to the Attorney - General to arrange for access to those communications;

then the Australian Federal Police must, by the third working day after the end of that period, revoke the preservation notice by giving the carrier to whom it was given written notice of the revocation.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an entity requests under section   107P the Australian Federal Police to arrange for the preservation of stored communications that are held by a carrier; and

  (b)   in response to the request, the Australian Federal Police gives a foreign preservation notice to the carrier in relation to those stored communications under subsection   107N(1); and

  (c)   the entity makes an access request to the Attorney - General to arrange for access to those communications; and

  (d)   the Attorney - General refuses that access request;

then the Australian Federal Police must, by the third working day after it is notified of the refusal, revoke the preservation notice by giving the carrier to whom it was given written notice of the revocation.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   an entity requests under section   107P the Australian Federal Police to arrange for the preservation of stored communications that are held by a carrier; and

  (b)   in response to the request, the Australian Federal Police gives a foreign preservation notice to the carrier in relation to those stored communications under subsection   107N(1); and

  (c)   the entity withdraws the request;

then the Australian Federal Police must, by the third working day after it is notified of the withdrawal, revoke the preservation notice by giving the carrier to whom it was given written notice of the revocation.