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.