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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Telecommunications (Interception)
Western Australia Amendment Bill 1999
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Interception) Western
Australia Act 1996 and for related purposes.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Interception)
Western Australia Amendment Act 1999.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.
3. The Act amended
Except as indicated in section 11, the amendments in this Act
5 are to the Telecommunications (Interception) Western Australia
Act 1996*.
[* Act No. 44 of 1996.]
4. Long title amended
The long title is amended by deleting "Police Force to be
10 declared an agency" and inserting instead --
"
Anti-Corruption Commission and the Police Force
to be declared agencies
".
15 5. Section 3 amended
Section 3(1) is amended as follows:
(a) in the definition of "agency", by inserting after
paragraph (b) the following paragraph --
" (ba) the Anti-Corruption Commission; ";
20 (b) after the definition of "agency", by inserting the
following definition --
"
"Anti-Corruption Commission" means the
Anti-Corruption Commission established by
25 section 5 of the Anti-Corruption Commission
Act 1988;
";
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(c) by deleting the definitions of "certifying officer" and
"chief officer" and inserting the following definitions
instead --
"
5 "certifying officer" means --
(a) in relation to the Anti-Corruption
Commission, a person appointed and holding
office as a member of that Commission
under section 5(3) of the Anti-Corruption
10 Commission Act 1988; or
(b) in relation to the Police Force, the
Commissioner of Police or a Deputy
Commissioner of Police;
"chief officer" means --
15 (a) in relation to the Anti-Corruption
Commission, the person appointed and
holding office as a member of that
Commission under section 5(3)(a) of the
Anti-Corruption Commission Act 1988; or
20 (b) in relation to the Police Force, the
Commissioner of Police;
";
(d) in the definition of "eligible authority" after "means", by
inserting --
25 " the Anti-Corruption Commission or ";
(e) by deleting the definition of "officer" and inserting the
following definition instead --
"
"officer" means --
30 (a) in relation to the Anti-Corruption
Commission, a person appointed under
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section 6(1) of the Anti-Corruption
Commission Act 1988; or
(b) in relation to the Police Force, a member of
the Police Force;
5 ";
(f) by inserting after the definition of "principal inspector"
the following definition --
"
"responsible Minister" means --
10 (a) in relation to the Anti-Corruption
Commission, the Attorney General; or
(b) in relation to the Police Force, the Minister;
".
6. Section 6 amended
15 After section 6(2) the following subsection is inserted --
"
(3) Nothing in any other law prevents the chief officer of
an eligible authority from giving to the responsible
Minister anything the chief officer is required by this
20 section to give to that Minister.
".
7. Section 10 amended
(1) Section 10(1) is repealed.
(2) Section 10(2) is amended by deleting "beginning on or after
25 1 July 1997".
8. Section 11 amended
Section 11(1) is repealed.
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9. Various amendments as to "eligible authority"
(1) The provisions mentioned in the Table to this subsection are
amended by deleting "the eligible authority" and inserting
instead --
5 " an eligible authority ".
Table
section 4 section 11(2)
section 5(1) section 13(2)
section 5(2) section 14(1)
section 6(1) section 14(4)(a)
section 7(a) section 15(2)
section 8(1) section 15(3)
section 8(2) section 16(b)
(2) The provisions mentioned in the Table to this subsection are
amended by deleting "the eligible authority's" and inserting
instead --
10 " an eligible authority's ".
Table
section 9(a) section 12
section 10(2) section 13(1)
section 10(3) section 16(a)
10. Various amendments as to "responsible Minister"
The provisions mentioned in the Table to this section are
amended by deleting "Minister" in each place where it occurs
15 (except in the expression "Commonwealth Minister") and
inserting instead --
" responsible Minister ".
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Table
section 6(1) section 11(3) (in 2 places)
section 7 (in 2 places) section 11(4)
section 9(b) section 18(b)
section 11(2) section 21 (in 2 places)
11. Consequential amendment of Anti-Corruption Commission
Act 1988
After section 52(2)(b) of the Anti-Corruption Commission
5 Act 1988* the following paragraph is inserted --
"
(ba) for the purposes of compliance with the
Telecommunications (Interception) Western
Australia Act 1996;
10 ".
[* Reprinted as at 1 November 1996.]
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