Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) ACT 1979 - SECT 124

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  an authorised representative of a carrier has been informed, under section 121, of the issue of a stored communications warrant; and

                     (b)  it is proposed, under the warrant, to access stored communications that, immediately before they became stored communications, had passed over a telecommunications service operated by a carrier; and

                     (c)  the service was not identified in the warrant;

the chief officer must cause that authorised representative to be given, as soon as practicable, a description in writing of the service sufficient to identify it.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  an authorised representative of a carrier has been informed, under subsection (1) of the issue of a stored communications warrant; and

                     (b)  the chief officer of the agency to which the warrant was issued, or a certifying officer of that agency, is satisfied that it is no longer necessary to access stored communications that, immediately before they became stored communications, had passed over that service;

the chief officer or the certifying officer must cause:

                     (c)  that authorised representative to be informed forthwith of the fact; and

                     (d)  confirmation in writing of the fact to be given as soon as practicable to that authorised representative.