Surveillance Devices Act 1999

to regulate the installation, use, maintenance and retrieval of surveillance devices;

to restrict the use, communication and publication of information obtained through the use of surveillance devices or otherwise connected with surveillance device operations;

to establish procedures for law enforcement officers to obtain warrants or emergency authorisations for the installation, use, maintenance and retrieval of surveillance devices;

to create offences relating to the improper installation or use of surveillance devices;

to impose requirements for the secure storage and destruction of records, and the making of reports to judges, magistrates and Parliament, in connection with surveillance device operations;

to repeal the Listening Devices Act 1969;

to recognise warrants and emergency authorisations issued in other jurisdictions for the installation and use of surveillance devices.