New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

LISTENING DEVICES ACT 1984

- As at 1 August 2008 
- Act 69 of 1984 

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   3A.     Judges
   3B.     Other judicial officers
   4.      Act to bind the Crown

   PART 2 - OFFENCES RELATING TO LISTENING DEVICES

   5.      Prohibition on use of listening devices
   6.      Prohibition on communication or publication of private conversations unlawfully listened to
   7.      Prohibition on communication or publication of records of private conversations by parties thereto
   8.      Possession of record of private conversation
   9.      Manufacture, supply etc of listening device for unlawful use
   10.     Offence against this Part
   11.     Penalty for offence against this Part

   PART 3 - ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE

   12.     Interpretation
   13.     Inadmissibility of evidence of private conversations when unlawfully obtained
   14.     Admissibility of evidence of private conversation when obtained inadvertently pursuant to warrant

   PART 4 - WARRANTS

   15.     Definitions
   16.     Warrants authorising use of listening devices
   16A.    Retrieval of listening device after expiry of warrant
   17.     Particulars of warrants sought under section 16 to be notified to Attorney General
   18.     Radio/telephone warrants
   19.     Reports
   20.     Requirement to inform subject of surveillance
   20A.    Use of assumed names or code-names in warrants
   21.     Procedure under this Part

   PART 5 - MISCELLANEOUS

   22.     Destruction of irrelevant records made by the use of a listening device
   23.     Annual report by Attorney General
   24.     Offences punishable summarily
   25.     Offences punishable on indictment
   26.     Certain summary proceedings to become committal proceedings
   27.     Time for instituting proceedings for certain offences
   28.     Consent of Attorney General to prosecutions
   29.     Offences by corporations
   30.     Orders for forfeiture
   31.     Regulations
   32.     Repeal of Act No 70, 1969
   33.     Savings and transitional provisions
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