Surveillance Devices (Amendment) Act 2004
Act No. 26/2004
table of provisions
Section Page
1.Purpose
2.Commencement
3.Principal Act
4.Purposes of the Principal Act
5.Definitions
6.New section 5A inserted
5A.Application of Act
7.Regulation of installation, use and maintenance of surveillance devices
8.Restriction on communication and publication of private conversations and private activities
9.New Division 1 substituted in Part 4
Division 1—Warrants
Subdivision 1—Introduction
13.Types of warrant
14.Who may issue warrants?
Subdivision 2—Surveillance Device Warrants
15.Application for surveillance device warrant
16.Remote application
17.Determining the application
18.What must a surveillance device warrant contain?
19.What a surveillance device warrant authorises
20.Extension and variation of surveillance device warrant
20A.Revocation of surveillance device warrant
20B.Discontinuance of use of surveillance device under warrant
Subdivision 3—Retrieval Warrants
20C.Application for retrieval warrant
20D.Remote application
20E.Determining the application
20F.What must a retrieval warrant contain?
20G.What a retrieval warrant authorises
20H.Revocation of retrieval warrant
10.New Division 3 substituted in Part 4
Division 3—Emergency Authorisations
25.Application of Division
26.Emergency authorisation—risk of serious personal violence or substantial property damage
27.Emergency authorisation—serious drug offences
28.Application for approval after use of surveillance device under emergency authorisation
29.Consideration of application
30.Judge may approve emergency use of powers
30A.Admissibility of evidence
11.New Part 4A inserted
Part 4A—Recognition of Corresponding Warrants and Authorisations
30B.Corresponding warrants
30C.Corresponding emergency authorisations
12.New heading to Part 5
13.New Divisions 1, 2 and 3 inserted in Part 5
Division 1—Restrictions on Use, Communication and Publication of Information
30D.What is protected information?
30E.Prohibition on use, communication or publication of protected information
30F.Permitted use of local protected information
30G.Permitted use of corresponding protected information
30H.Dealing with records obtained by use of surveillance devices
30I.Protection of surveillance device technologies and methods
30J.Protected information in the custody of a court
Division 2—Reporting and Record-keeping
30K.Report to judge or magistrate
30L.Annual reports
30M.Keeping documents connected with warrants and emergency authorisations
30N.Other records to be kept
30O.Register of warrants and emergency authorisations
Division 3—Inspections
30P.Inspection of records by relevant Ombudsman
30Q.Reports on inspections
14.New Division heading in Part 5
15.Further offences and enforcement
16.New Part 6 substituted
Part 6—General
36.Evidentiary certificates
37.Regulations
17.Repeal of spent provisions
18.New section 42 inserted
42.Transitional provisions—Surveillance Devices (Amendment) Act 2004
19.Consequential amendment of Ombudsman Act 1973
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Endnotes
Surveillance Devices (Amendment) Act 2004
[Assented to 25 May 2004]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1.Purpose
The main purpose of this Act is to amend the Surveillance Devices Act 1999—
(a)with respect to warrants and emergency authorisations for the use of surveillance devices; and
(b)to recognise warrants and emergency authorisations issued in other jurisdictions.
2.Commencement
This Act comes into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.
3.Principal Act
In this Act, the Surveillance Devices Act 1999 is called the Principal Act.
4.Purposes of the Principal Act
In section 1 of the Principal Act—
(a)in paragraph (a), for "and maintenance" substitute ", maintenance and retrieval";
(b)for paragraph (b) substitute—
"(b)to restrict the use, communication and publication of information obtained through the use of surveillance…