Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1991

- Act 21 of 1991
- Royal Assent 31 July 1991

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      1. Short title
   2.      2. Commencement
   3.      3. Interpretation
   4.      4. Act to bind the Crown

   PART 2 - Offences Relating to Listening Devices

   5.      5. Prohibition on use of listening devices
   6.      6. Power of Chief Magistrate to require subject to be informed
           of surveillance
   7.      7. Further power of Chief Magistrate to require subject to be
           informed of surveillance
   8.      8. Report to Attorney-General
   9.      9. Prohibition on communication or publication of private
           conversations unlawfully listened to
   10.     10. Prohibition on communication or publication of records of
           private conversations by parties thereto
   11.     11. Possession of record of private conversation
   12.     12. Offence against this Part

   PART 3 - Admissibility of Evidence

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

   PART 4 - Warrants

   16.     16. Interpretation
   17.     17. Warrants authorizing use of listening devices
   18.     18. Radio/telephone warrants
   19.     19. Report to Attorney-General, &c.
   20.     20. Requirement to inform subject of surveillance

   PART 5 - Miscellaneous

   21.     21. Destruction of irrelevant records made by the use of a
           listening device
   22.     22. Annual report by Attorney-General
   23.     23. Time for instituting proceedings for certain offences
   24.     24. Consent of Director of Public Prosecutions
   25.     25. Offences by corporations
   26.     26. Orders for forfeiture
   27.     27. Regulations


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