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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 27H

Authority under identified person warrant--inspection of delivery articles

  (1)   This section applies if an identified person warrant in relation to a person (the identified person ) gives conditional approval for the Organisation to access articles while the articles are being delivered by a delivery service provider.

Things that may be authorised under warrant

  (2)   Subject to subsection   (4), the Attorney - General or the Director - General may, on request, authorise the Organisation to do one or more of the things mentioned in subsection   (3) in relation to any of the following:

  (a)   articles posted by or on behalf of the identified person;

  (b)   articles addressed to the identified person;

  (c)   articles reasonably suspected by a person authorised to exercise the authority of the Organisation under the warrant to be intended to be received by the identified person.

  (3)   The things are as follows:

  (a)   inspect and make copies of the articles, or the covers of the articles;

  (b)   open the articles;

  (c)   inspect and make copies of the contents of the articles;

  (d)   any other thing reasonably incidental to any of the above.

Test for authorisation

  (4)   The Attorney - General or the Director - General is only to give an authorisation under subsection   (2) if the Attorney - General or the Director - General is satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that doing that thing or those things under the warrant will substantially assist the collection of intelligence relevant to the prejudicial activities of the identified person.

Definitions

  (5)   In this section:

"article" has the same meaning as in section   27AA.

"delivery service provider" has the same meaning as in section   27AA.


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