New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE ACT 2005 - SECT 27

27 Surveillance supervisor

(1) When a Magistrate issues a covert surveillance authority, the Magistrate is to designate one or more persons to be surveillance supervisors for the authority, to oversee the conduct of surveillance operations under the authority.

(2) The Magistrate is not to designate a person as a surveillance supervisor unless satisfied that the person has qualifications or experience that suit the person to be responsible for overseeing the conduct of the surveillance operations to be authorised by the authority.

(3) If the authority is to authorise covert surveillance of a recreation room, meal room or any other area at a workplace where employees are not directly engaged in work, the Magistrate must also be satisfied that each person designated as a surveillance supervisor is competent and fit to oversee the conduct of the surveillance in such an area, and is capable of adequately accommodating in the conduct of the operation the employees’ heightened expectation of privacy.