Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION) TASMANIA ACT 1999 - SECT 5

      (1) The Commissioner must cause the following particulars and statements to be recorded as soon as practicable after the occurrence of the event to which they relate:

(a) particulars of each telephone application for a warrant made on behalf of the Tasmania Police Service;

(b) in relation to each application for a warrant made on behalf of the Tasmania Police Service, a statement as to whether –

(i) the application was withdrawn or refused; or

(ii) a warrant was issued on the application;

(ba) in relation to each warrant whose authority is exercised by the Tasmania Police Service, particulars of –

(i) the warrant; and

(ii) the day on which, and the time at which, each interception under the warrant began; and

(iii) the duration of each such interception; and

(iv) the name of the person who carried out each such interception; and

(v) in relation to a named person warrant, each service to or from which communications have been intercepted under the warrant;

(c) in relation to each restricted record that has at any time been in the possession of the Tasmania Police Service –

(i) if the record was obtained by an interception under a warrant, particulars of that warrant; and

(ii) particulars of each occasion on which the record came (whether by its making or otherwise) to be in the possession of the Tasmania Police Service; and

(iii) particulars of each occasion (if any) on which the record ceased (whether by its destruction or otherwise) to be in the possession of the Tasmania Police Service; and

(iv) particulars of each agency, body or other person (if any) from whom the Tasmania Police Service received the record or to whom the Tasmania Police Service supplied the record;

(d) particulars of each use made by the Tasmania Police Service of lawfully obtained information;

(e) particulars of each communication of lawfully obtained information by a member of the Tasmania Police Service to a person or body other than another member of the Tasmania Police Service;

(f) particulars of each occasion on which, to the knowledge of a member of the Tasmania Police Service, lawfully obtained information was given in evidence in a relevant proceeding.

      (1A) If a warrant is a named person warrant, the particulars referred to in subsection (1)(ba)(ii) must indicate the service in respect of which each interception occurred.

      (2) The Commissioner must keep in the records of the Tasmania Police Service each record that the Commissioner has caused to be made under subsection (1).