Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (53 of 2025)

Schedule 3   Amendments relating to developing and testing interception capabilities

Part 1   Amendments

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

5   After subsection 31A(4A)

Insert:

(4B) To avoid doubt, subparagraph (2)(a)(ii) has the effect that lawfully intercepted information obtained under the authorisation may be communicated, used or recorded for the purposes of development or testing of technologies, or interception capabilities.

(4C) The reference in subsection (1) and subparagraph (2)(a)(i) to interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system includes a reference to the accessing of the communications as stored communications after they have ceased to pass over a telecommunications system.