Surveillance Devices Amendment Regulations 2025 (WA)

Western Australia

Surveillance Devices Act 1998

Surveillance Devices Amendment Regulations 2025

Western Australia

Surveillance Devices Amendment Regulations 2025 Contents Surveillance Devices Act 1998

Surveillance Devices Act 1998

Surveillance Devices Amendment Regulations 2025

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.Citation

These regulations are the Surveillance Devices Amendment Regulations 2025.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

• (a)

  regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published on the WA legislation website;

• (b)

  the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Surveillance Devices Regulations 1999.

4.Regulation 6 amended

• (1)

  After regulation 6(1)(da) insert:

   
  • (db)

    by a police officer or police employee, in a Border Search Area, to identify devices that emit radio waves, for the purpose of monitoring patterns of movement or behaviour that indicate criminal activity;

     
• (2)

  After regulation 6(1) insert:

   
• (1A)

  For the purposes of subregulation (1)(db), the Commissioner of Police may designate in writing an employee, or a class of employee, of the department principally assisting the Minister in the administration of the Act.

   
• (3)

  In regulation 6(4) insert in alphabetical order:

   

Border Search Area has the meaning given in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 section 20N(1);

police employee means an employee, or a person who is of a class of employee, designated under subregulation (1A);

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council