Restriction about records and access to covert search warrant applications
154 Restriction about records and access to covert search warrant applications
Despite the Recording of Evidence Act 1962, a transcript of an application for a covert search warrant or an extension of a covert search warrant and any order made on the application must not be made.
A person must not publish a report of a proceeding on an application for a covert search warrant or an extension of a covert search warrant.Maximum penalty—85 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.
A person is not entitled to search information in the custody of the Supreme Court in relation to an application for a covert search warrant, unless a Supreme Court judge otherwise orders in the interests of justice.
Nothing in this section prevents a person who was present at a proceeding on an application for a covert search warrant or an extension of a covert search warrant from giving oral evidence to a court about things that happened at the proceeding.
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