LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1984 - As at 1 August 2008 - Act 69 of 1984
This legislation has been repealed.
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