South Australian Consolidated Acts

LISTENING AND SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 1972 - SECT 6AC

6AC—Register of warrants

        (1)         The Commissioner of Police must keep a register of warrants issued to members of the police force under this Act (other than warrants issued to members of the police force during any period of secondment to positions outside the police force).

        (2)         The register must contain the following information in relation to each such warrant:

            (a)         the date of issue of the warrant and the period for which the warrant is to be in force;

            (b)         the name of the judge who issued the warrant;

            (c)         the name and rank of the member of the police force to whom the warrant was issued;

            (d)         the name or, if the name is not known, a description of the person subject to the investigation in relation to which the warrant was issued;

            (e)         if the application for the warrant was by telephone under section 6A, the date on which the applicant forwarded an affidavit and copy of the duplicate warrant to the judge as required under that section;

            (f)         if an application for variation of the warrant was made, the date of the application and details of the variation (if any) granted;

            (g)         the date of any renewal of the warrant and the period for which the renewed warrant is to be in force;

            (h)         the period for which the warrant was actually in force (including any periods for which it was in force following renewal) and the date on which the warrant ceased to be in force;

                  (i)         the dates of any arrests made on the basis or partly on the basis of information obtained by use of the listening or surveillance device to which the warrant relates;

            (j)         the dates on which any prosecutions were instituted in which information obtained by use of the listening or surveillance device formed part of the basis of the decision to prosecute;

            (k)         the dates on which any persons were found guilty of offences in consequence of those prosecutions;

            (l)         the dates on which any persons pleaded guilty to the charge of an offence in consequence of those prosecutions;

            (m)         such other matters as may be prescribed by regulation.