Which is (in part) why I can't see the need for any additional
legislation - the agencies have ample rights under the existing
regimes.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:24 PM Paul Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Provision 28(1) amending the Surveillance Devices Act would already authorise 
> data access for any senior officer of the law enforcement agencies.
>
> 50 After subsection 28(1)
> Insert:
> (1A) A law enforcement officer may apply to an appropriate authorising 
> officer for an emergency authorisation for access to data held in a computer 
> (the target computer) if, in the course of an investigation of a relevant 
> offence, the law enforcement officer reasonably suspects that:
> (a) an imminent risk of serious violence to a person or substantial damage to 
> property exists; and
> (b) access to data held in the target computer is immediately necessary for 
> the purpose of dealing with that risk; and
> (c) the circumstances are so serious and the matter is of such urgency that 
> access to data held in the target computer is
> warranted; and
> (d) it is not practicable in the circumstances to apply for a computer access 
> warrant.
>
> I was pretty gob smacked.

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