TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 298 Protection of persons--control order declared to be void

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 298

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a warrant was issued on the basis that an interim control order was in force; and

  (b)   a court subsequently declares the interim control order to be void;

a criminal proceeding does not lie against a person in respect of anything done, or omitted to be done, in good faith by the person:

  (c)   in the purported execution of the warrant; or

  (d)   in the purported exercise of a power, or the purported performance of a function or duty, in a case where the purported exercise of the power, or the purported performance of the function or duty, is consequential on the warrant.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to a thing done, or omitted to be done, at a particular time if, at that time, the person knew, or ought reasonably to have known, of the declaration.