Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (39 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Data retention

Part 2   Other amendments

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

6Z   After subsection 186(1)

Insert:

(1A) The report under subsection (1) is to set out the offences and other matters referred to in paragraph (1)(e) by means of the categories declared under subsection (1B).

(1B) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, declare categories of offences and other matters into which the offences and other matters are to be divided for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e).

(1C) The report under subsection (1) is to set out the matters referred to in paragraph (1)(f) by specifying:

(a) in relation to each of 8 successive periods of 3 months, the number of the authorisations made for information or documents held for lengths of time included in that period; and

(b) the number of the authorisations made for information or documents held for lengths of time exceeding 24 months.

(1D) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(f), disregard any authorisations under subsection 180(2), except to the extent that they include authorisations under subsection 180(3).

(1E) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, declare kinds of information that are to be set out in the report under subsection (1).