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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 128 Provision of technical assistance

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 128

Provision of technical assistance

  (1)   Despite subsection   127(1), a designated officer, or an employee of a carrier, may provide technical assistance to an officer or staff member of a criminal law - enforcement agency who is exercising the authority conferred by a stored communications warrant.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), the provision of technical assistance includes (but is not limited to):

  (a)   the doing of any act in connection with:

  (i)   the installation of equipment for the purposes of accessing stored communications in accordance with a stored communications warrant; or

  (ii)   the maintenance, testing or use of such equipment; or

  (iii)   the removal of such equipment; and

  (b)   the doing of any act involved in the accessing of a stored communication under a stored communications warrant, to the extent that the act is incidental to the doing of an act referred to in paragraph   (a).

  (3)   The chief officer of a criminal law - enforcement agency or a person who is an approving officer for a criminal law - enforcement agency under subsection   127(3) may, in writing, declare persons to be designated officers for the purposes of this section.