Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Act 2025 (75 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Consequential amendments commencing with the main amendments

Surveillance Devices Act 2004

273   Subsection 49A(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) Within 6 months after a Part 5.3 warrant or a Part 9.10 warrant is issued in response to an application by a law enforcement officer of a law enforcement agency, the chief officer of the agency must:

(a) if the law enforcement agency is the Australian Crime Commission:

(i) notify the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security that the warrant has been issued; and

(ii) give the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security a copy of the warrant; and

(b) otherwise:

(i) notify the Ombudsman that the warrant has been issued; and

(ii) give the Ombudsman a copy of the warrant.