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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION) WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1996 - SECT 6

6 .         Documents to be given by an eligible authority to the responsible Minister

        (1)         The chief officer of an eligible authority is to give to the responsible Minister — 

            (a)         a copy of each warrant issued to the authority, and of each instrument under section 52 or 57 of the Commonwealth Act revoking such a warrant, as soon as practicable after the issue or revocation of the warrant;

            (b)         within 3 months after a warrant issued to the authority ceases to be in force, a written report about — 

                  (i)         the use made by the authority of information obtained by interceptions under the warrant; and

                  (ii)         the communication of that information to persons other than officers of the authority;

                and

            (c)         as soon as practicable, and in any event within 3 months, after each 30 June, a written report that sets out the information that — 

                  (i)         Division 2 of Part IX of the Commonwealth Act requires to be set out in the Commonwealth Minister’s report under that Division relating to the year ending on that 30 June; and

                  (ii)         can be derived from the authority’s records.

        (2)         A report under subsection (1)(c) is to include a statement of the total expenditure (including expenditure of a capital nature) incurred by the eligible authority in connection with the execution of warrants during the year to which the report relates.

        (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 section to give to that Minister.

        [Section 6 amended by No. 1 of 2000 s. 6, 9(1) and 10.]



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