LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1984 - As at 1 August 2008 - Act 69 of 1984

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

• 1 Name of Act
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Definitions
• 3A Judges
• 3B Other judicial officers
• 4 Act to bind the Crown

PART 2 - OFFENCES RELATING TO LISTENING DEVICES

• 5 Prohibition on use of listening devices
• 6 Prohibition on communication or publication of private conversations unlawfully listened to
• 7 Prohibition on communication or publication of records of private conversations by parties thereto
• 8 Possession of record of private conversation
• 9 Manufacture, supply etc of listening device for unlawful use
• 10 Offence against this Part
• 11 Penalty for offence against this Part

PART 3 - ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE

• 12 Interpretation
• 13 Inadmissibility of evidence of private conversations when unlawfully obtained
• 14 Admissibility of evidence of private conversation when obtained inadvertently pursuant to warrant

PART 4 - WARRANTS

• 15 Definitions
• 16 Warrants authorising use of listening devices
• 16A Retrieval of listening device after expiry of warrant
• 17 Particulars of warrants sought under section 16 to be notified to Attorney General
• 18 Radio/telephone warrants
• 19 Reports
• 20 Requirement to inform subject of surveillance
• 20A Use of assumed names or code-names in warrants
• 21 Procedure under this Part

PART 5 - MISCELLANEOUS

• 22 Destruction of irrelevant records made by the use of a listening device
• 23 Annual report by Attorney General
• 24 Offences punishable summarily
• 25 Offences punishable on indictment
• 26 Certain summary proceedings to become committal proceedings
• 27 Time for instituting proceedings for certain offences
• 28 Consent of Attorney General to prosecutions
• 29 Offences by corporations
• 30 Orders for forfeiture
• 31 Regulations
• 32 Repeal of Act No 70, 1969
• 33 Savings and transitional provisions
• SCHEDULE 1
• SCHEDULE 2
• SCHEDULE 3