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• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: enable owners and operators of computer networks to undertake activities to operate, maintain and protect their networks; enable Commonwealth agencies, security authorities and eligible State authorities to ensure their network is appropriately used by employees, office holders or contractors of the agency or authority; limit secondary use and disclosure of information obtained through network protection activities; and require the destruction of records obtained by undertaking network protection activities when the information is no longer required for those purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications and Other Measures) Bill 2005

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  Date

  14 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to: extend for 6 months the operation of the provisions that enable access to stored communications without the need for a warrant; make the Victorian Office of Police Integrity and the New South Wales Inspector of the Independent Commission Against Corruption eligible authorities for the purposes of the Act; enable the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Queensland Corruption and Crime Commission and the New South Wales Inspector of the Police Integrity Commission to use lawfully obtained intercepted material for the purpose of fulfilling their statutory functions; clarify that the expression “officer of a State” includes all members of the police service of that State; and as a consequence of the commencement of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to exclude access to stored communications from the current prohibition against interception of communications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 1999

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  Date

  31 Aug 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004

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  Date

  19 Feb 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to: extend the availability of telecommunications interception warrants to additional serious offences; extend the protections of the Act in relation to text-based communications; facilitate the recording of calls to publicly-listed Australian Security Intelligence Organisation numbers; and clarify the application of the Act to delayed access message services. Also contains a transitional provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2006

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  Date

  16 Feb 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to: establish a warrant regime for enforcement agencies to access stored communications held by a telecommunications carrier; and amend the long and short titles of the Act to reflect this access; and makes consequential amendments to 9 other Acts to reflect the Act’s changed title. Also amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to: enable interception of communications of a person known to communicate with a person of interest; permit equipment-based interception; remove the distinction between class 1 and class 2 offences; remove the Telecommunications Interception Remote Authority Connection function currently exercised by the Australian Federal Police and transfer the associated warrant register function to the Attorney-General’s Department; and make other amendments in relation to the ongoing operation of the interception regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Legislation Amendment Bill 2000

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  Date

  16 Feb 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2000

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  Date

  09 Dec 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2005

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  Date

  02 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 10 bills in relation to the establishment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the bill amends the

  Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997

  to: replace existing references to the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) with references to the ACMA; and repeal spent provisions. Also contains transitional provisions providing for the continuing effect of certain transfer notices given to, and determinations made by, the ACA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Communication Legislation Amendment (Deregulation and Other Measures) Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments to reflect that the allocation to and holding of numbers by carriage service providers, for which charges arise under the Act, could in future be managed in accordance with an industry-based scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum