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SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 1998 - SECT 31

31 .         Order allowing publication or communication in the public interest

        (1)         A judge may make an order that a person may publish or communicate a private conversation, or a report or record of a private conversation, or a record of a private activity that has come to the person’s knowledge as a direct or indirect result of the use of a listening device or an optical surveillance device under Division 2 or 3, if the judge is satisfied, upon application being made in accordance with section 32, that the publication or communication should be made to protect or further the public interest.

        (2)         A judge, when making an order under subsection (1), may impose such conditions or restrictions as the judge considers necessary in the circumstances.

        (3)         Upon an application made under section 32 a judge may make an order that a report or record of a private conversation, or a record of a private activity —

            (a)         be made available to any person or destroyed;

            (b)         be delivered to —

                  (i)         the police force of the State or of another State or a Territory;

            (ia)         the Corruption and Crime Commission;

            (ib)         the Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission;

                  (ii)         a designated Commission;

                  (iii)         the Australian Federal Police; or

                  (iv)         the Australian Crime Commission;

                or

            (c)         be kept in the custody of the court if the judge is satisfied that it is necessary to protect or further the public interest.

        [Section 31 amended: No. 78 of 2003 s. 74; No. 74 of 2004 s. 72(3); No. 30 of 2006 s. 23.]



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