New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE ACT 2005 - SECT 36

36 Storage of surveillance records of covert surveillance

(1) Any surveillance supervisor who oversees the conduct of covert surveillance under the authority of a covert surveillance authority must take such security safeguards as are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that any surveillance record made as a consequence of the covert surveillance that is in the possession or under the control of the surveillance supervisor is protected against loss or unauthorised access or use.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) An employer or employer’s representative to whom a covert surveillance authority is issued is to ensure that any portion of a surveillance record made as a consequence of covert surveillance under the authority that is in the possession or under the control of the employer or employer’s representative is protected against loss or unauthorised access or use.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.