Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2002 NO. 67, 2002 - SCHEDULE 3

1 After subsection 6(2)

Insert:

Communications to emergency services numbers

(2A)

In this section, an emergency services number is a telephone number:

(a)

on which assistance in emergencies may be sought from:

(i)

a police force or service; or

(ii)

a fire service; or

(iii)

an ambulance service; and

(b)

that is specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph, or is in a class of numbers specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.

(2B)

If a person who is lawfully engaged in duties relating to the receiving and handling of communications to an emergency services number listens to or records a communication passing over a telecommunications system to the emergency services number, the listening or recording does not, for the purposes of this Act, constitute the interception of the communication.