Annual report about covert search warrants
30 Annual report about covert search warrants
The Commissioner must, by 31 August in each year, give the Minister a report containing this information for the previous financial year —
how many applications for covert search warrants were made, refused and granted;
how many of those applications were made, refused or granted by remote communication under section 25;
how many covert search warrants were executed;
how many places and vehicles were entered under covert search warrants;
on how many occasions things connected with terrorist acts or Commonwealth terrorist offences were seized;
on how many occasions any thing was replaced with a substitute for it;
on how many occasions a place or vehicle was re‑entered to return or retrieve any thing;
on how many occasions electronic equipment was operated under covert search warrants;
any other information that the Minister requests the Commissioner to include in relation to covert search warrants.
The report may form part of the annual report submitted to the Minister under the Financial Management Act 2006.
If the report does not form part of that annual report, the Minister must, within 30 days after receiving it, cause it to be tabled before each House of Parliament.
[Section 30 amended: No. 46 of 2009 s. 17; No. 39 of 2015 s. 19.]
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