LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1984 - SECT 6 Prohibition on communication or publication of private conversations unlawfully listened to

This legislation has been repealed.

LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1984 - SECT 6

6 Prohibition on communication or publication of private conversations unlawfully listened to

(1) A person shall not knowingly communicate or publish to any other person a private conversation, or a report of a private conversation, that has come to the person's knowledge as a result, direct or indirect, of the use of a listening device in contravention of section 5.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply:

(a) where the communication or publication is made:

(i) to a party to the private conversation,

(ii) with the consent, express or implied, of all the principal parties to the private conversation, or

(iii) in the course of proceedings for an offence against this Act or the regulations,

(b) where the communication or publication is not more than is reasonably necessary in connection with:

(i) an imminent threat of serious violence to persons or of substantial damage to property, or

(ii) a serious narcotics offence, or

(c) to prevent a person who has obtained knowledge of the private conversation otherwise than in a manner referred to in that subsection from communicating or publishing to another person the knowledge so obtained by the person, notwithstanding that the person also obtained knowledge of the conversation in such a manner.