SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2007 - SECT 14A Police use of body-worn video

SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 2007 - SECT 14A

    (1)     The use of body-worn video by a police officer is in accordance with this section if:

        (a)     the police officer is acting in the execution of the officer's duty; and

        (b)     the use of body-worn video is overt; and

        (c)     the police officer is in uniform or has provided evidence that the officer is a police officer to each party to the private activity or private conversation to be recorded.

    (2)     Without limiting the ways in which the use of body-worn video may be overt for subsection (1)(b), the use of body-worn video is overt once the police officer informs the person who is to be recorded of the use of the body-worn video by the police officer.

    (3)     The use of body-worn video by a police officer is also taken to be in accordance with this section if it is inadvertent or unexpected.