The main purposes of this Bill are:

(a) to establish procedures for law enforcement officers to obtain warrants, emergency authorisations and tracking device authorisations for the installation and use of surveillance devices in relation to criminal investigations and the location and safe recovery of children to whom recovery orders relate; and
(b) to restrict the use, communication and publication of information that is obtained through the use of surveillance devices or that is otherwise connected with surveillance device operations; and
(c) to impose requirements for the secure storage and destruction of records, and the making of reports, in connection with surveillance device operations.