Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 26P

  (1)   Subject to subsections   (3) and (4), if an authorising officer is satisfied that the grounds on which an internal authorisation was given have ceased to exist, the authorising officer must, as soon as practicable, take such steps as are necessary to ensure that action under the internal authorisation is discontinued.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), action under an internal authorisation does not include the recovery of a tracking device or any enhancement equipment in relation to the device.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   an internal authorisation was given in relation to more than one of the matters mentioned in subsection   26G(2); and

  (b)   the grounds on which the internal authorisation was given continue to exist for at least one of those matters;

subsection   (1) applies only in relation to the matters for which the grounds have ceased to exist.

  (4)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to an authorising officer if another authorising officer has already taken, or started to take, such steps as are necessary to ensure that action under the internal authorisation is discontinued.