TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 31C Destruction of records

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 31C

    If:

  (a)   information, or a record, that was obtained, in the course of developing or testing technologies or interception capabilities, by interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system is in a security authority's possession; and

  (b)   the information or record is no longer required in relation to the development or testing;

the head (however described) of the security authority, or a person acting as that head, must cause the information or record to be destroyed as soon as practicable.