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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 3ZQN

Power to obtain documents relating to serious terrorism offences

  (1)   This section applies if an authorised AFP officer considers on reasonable grounds that a person has documents (including in electronic form) that are relevant to, and will assist, the investigation of a serious terrorism offence.

  (2)   The officer may give the person a written notice requiring the person to produce documents that:

  (a)   relate to one or more of the matters set out in section   3ZQP, as specified in the notice; and

  (b)   are in the possession or under the control of the person.

  (3)   The notice must:

  (a)   specify the name of the person to whom the notice is given; and

  (b)   specify the matters to which the documents to be produced relate; and

  (c)   specify the manner in which the documents are to be produced; and

  (d)   specify the place at which the documents are to be produced; and

  (e)   specify the day by which the person must comply with the notice, being a day that is at least:

  (i)   14 days after the giving of the notice; or

  (ii)   if the officer believes that it is appropriate, having regard to the urgency of the situation, to specify an earlier day--3 days after the giving of the notice; and

  (f)   set out the effect of section   3ZQS (offence for failure to comply); and

  (g)   if the notice specifies that information about the notice must not be disclosed--set out the effect of section   3ZQT (offence for disclosing existence or nature of a notice).


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