Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017 (ACT)
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017
SL2017-8
made under the
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Act 2010
Republication No 2
Effective: 28 January 2022
Republication date: 28 January 2022
Last amendment made by SL2022‑1
About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017, made under the Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Act 2010 (including any amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)) as in force on 28 January 2022. It also includes any commencement, amendment, repeal or expiry affecting this republished law to 28 January 2022.
The legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3 and 4.
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Editorial changes
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This republication includes amendments made under part 11.3 (see endnote 1).
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Modifications
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Penalties
At the republication date, the value of a penalty unit for an offence against this law is $160 for an individual and $810 for a corporation (see Legislation Act 2001, s 133).
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017
made under the
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Act 2010
Contents
Page
1 Name of regulation 2
3 Corresponding law—Act, dict, def corresponding law 2
Endnotes
1 About the endnotes 3
2 Abbreviation key 3
3 Legislation history 4
4 Amendment history 4
5 Earlier republications 5
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017
made under the
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Act 2010
Name of regulation
This regulation is the Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017.
Corresponding law—Act, dict, def corresponding law
(1)The following laws are declared to correspond to the Act:
(a)the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW);
(b)the Surveillance Devices Act 1999 (Vic);
(c)the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 (Qld), chapter 13;
(d)the Police Powers (Surveillance Devices) Act 2006 (Tas);
(e)the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NT);
(f)the Surveillance Devices Act 2016 (SA), except to the extent that it provides for a surveillance device (emergency) authority to be granted in relation to a serious drug offence.
NoteA surveillance device (emergency) authority would otherwise be a corresponding emergency authorisation (see Act, dict, def corresponding emergency authorisation).
(2)In this section:
serious drug offence—see the Surveillance Devices Act 2016 (SA), section 3.
surveillance device (emergency) authority—see the Surveillance Devices Act 2016 (SA), section 3.
Endnotes
About the endnotes
Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the amendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished law but are set out in the endnotes.
Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are annotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The details of these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced expiries are underlined in the legislation history and amendment history.
If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered provisions gives details of previous and current numbering.
The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.
Abbreviation key
A = Act NI = Notifiable instrument AF = Approved form o = order am = amended om = omitted/repealed amdt = amendment ord = ordinance AR = Assembly resolution orig = original ch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph CN = Commencement notice pres = present def = definition prev = previous DI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously dict = dictionary pt = part disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule Assembly reloc = relocated div = division renum = renumbered exp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No Gaz = gazette RI = reissue hdg = heading s = section/subsection IA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule ins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision LA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law LR = legislation register sub = substituted LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced mod = modified/modification or to be expired
Legislation history
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Regulation 2017 SL2017-8
notified LR 24 April 2017
s 1, s 2 commenced 24 April 2017 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 25 April 2017 (s 2)as amended by
Crimes (Surveillance Devices) Amendment Regulation 2022 (No 1) SL2022-1
notified LR 27 January 2022
s 1, s 2 commenced 27 January 2022 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 28 January 2022 (s 2)Amendment history
Commencement
s 2om LA s 89 (4)
Corresponding law—Act, dict, def corresponding law
s 3am SL2022-1 s 4, s 5
Earlier republications
Some earlier republications were not numbered. The number in column 1 refers to the publication order.
Since 12 September 2001 every authorised republication has been published in electronic pdf format on the ACT legislation register. A selection of authorised republications have also been published in printed format. These republications are marked with an asterisk (*) in column 1. Electronic and printed versions of an authorised republication are identical.
Republication No and date Effective Last amendment made by Republication for R1
25 April 201725 April 2017–
27 Jan 2022not amended new regulation
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