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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 30

Discontinuance of action before expiration of warrant

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (3), if the Director - General is satisfied that the grounds on which a warrant under this Division was issued have ceased to exist, the Director - General must, as soon as practicable:

  (a)   inform the Attorney - General of that fact; and

  (b)   take such steps as are necessary to ensure that action under the warrant is discontinued.

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(b), action under a warrant :

  (a)   if the warrant is issued under section   26R--includes the recovery of a tracking device or any enhancement equipment in relation to the device; or

  (b)   otherwise:

  (i)   includes action under an authorisation given under an identified person warrant; but

  (ii)   does not include the recovery of a surveillance device or any enhancement equipment in relation to the device.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a surveillance device warrant was issued in relation to more than one of the matters mentioned in paragraph   26(2)(a); and

  (b)   the grounds on which the warrant was issued 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.


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