TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 6DA Nominated AAT members

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 6DA

  (1)   The Attorney - General may, by writing, nominate a person who holds one of the following appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to issue warrants (except to the National Anti - Corruption Commission) under Part   2 - 5:

  (a)   Deputy President;

  (b)   senior member (of any level);

  (c)   member (of any level).

  (2)   Despite subsection   (1), the Attorney - General must not nominate a person who holds an appointment as a part - time senior member or a member of the Tribunal unless the person:

  (a)   is enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court, of another federal court or of the Supreme Court of a State or of the Australian Capital Territory; and

  (b)   has been so enrolled for not less than 5 years.

  (3)   A nomination ceases to have effect if:

  (a)   the nominated AAT member ceases to hold an appointment of a kind set out in subsection   (1); or

  (b)   the Attorney - General, by writing, withdraws the nomination.

  (4)   A nominated AAT member has, in performing a function of or connected with, issuing a warrant under Part   2 - 5, the same protection and immunity as a Justice of the High Court has in relation to proceedings in the High Court.