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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 3ZZTC

Dealing with things, information or documents obtained under a monitoring warrant--control order declared to be void

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   a monitoring warrant was issued on the basis that an interim control order was in force; and

  (b)   a court subsequently declares the interim control order to be void; and

  (c)   before the declaration was made, a thing was seized, information was obtained, or a document was produced, as a result of:

  (i)   the purported execution of the warrant; or

  (ii)   the purported exercise of a power, or the purported performance of a function or duty, in a case where the purported exercise of the power, or the purported performance of the function or duty, is consequential on the warrant.

Dealing

  (2)   A person may:

  (a)   adduce the thing, information or document as evidence in a proceeding; or

  (b)   use or communicate the information; or

  (c)   use, or communicate the contents of, the document;

if:

  (d)   the person reasonably believes that doing so is necessary to assist in preventing, or reducing the risk of:

  (i)   the commission of a terrorist act; or

  (ii)   serious harm to a person; or

  (iii)   serious damage to property; or

  (e)   the person does so for one or more purposes set out in subsection   (3).

Purposes

  (3)   The purposes are purposes connected with:

  (a)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, Division   105 of the Criminal Code , so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of Part   5.3 of the Criminal Code ); or

  (b)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, Part   2A of the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002 (NSW), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Part); or

  (c)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, Part   2A of the Terrorism (Community Protection) Act 2003 (Vic.), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Part); or

  (d)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, the Terrorism (Preventative Detention) Act 2005 (Qld), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Act); or

  (e)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, the Terrorism (Preventative Detention) Act 2006 (WA), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Act); or

  (f)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, the Terrorism (Preventative Detention) Act 2005 (SA), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Act); or

  (g)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, the Terrorism (Preventative Detention) Act 2005 (Tas.), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Act); or

  (h)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, Part   2 of the Terrorism (Extraordinary Temporary Powers) Act 2006 (ACT), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Part); or

  (i)   the performance of a function or duty, or the exercise of a power, by a person, court, tribunal or other body under, or in relation to a matter arising under, Part   2B of the Terrorism (Emergency Powers) Act 2003 (NT), so far as the function, duty or power relates to a preventative detention order (within the meaning of that Part).

Definition

  (4)   In this section:

"serious harm" has the same meaning as in the Criminal Code .


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