TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 187C Period for keeping information and documents

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 187C

  (1)   The period for which a service provider must keep, or cause to be kept, information or a document under section   187A is:

  (a)   if the information is about, or the document contains information about, a matter of a kind described in paragraph   (a) or (b) in column 2 of item   1 of the table in subsection   187AA(1)--the period:

  (i)   starting when the information or document came into existence; and

  (ii)   ending 2 years after the closure of the account to which the information or document relates; or

  (b)   otherwise--the period:

  (i)   starting when the information or document came into existence; and

  (ii)   ending 2 years after it came into existence.

  (2)   However, the regulations may prescribe that, in relation to a specified matter of a kind described in paragraph   (a) or (b) in column 2 of item   1 of the table in subsection   187AA(1), the period under subsection   (1) of this section is the period referred to in paragraph   (1)(b) of this section.

  (3)   This section does not prevent a service provider from keeping information or a document for a period that is longer than the period provided under this section.

Note:   Division   3 provides for reductions in periods specified under this section.