Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Regulations 2017

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Regulations 2017

1  Amendments of listed provisions—substituting references to Minister with references to Attorney‑General

Omit “Minister” (wherever occurring) and substitute “Attorney‑General” in the following provisions:

 (a) subparagraph 13(3)(a)(i);

 (b) subparagraph 14(6)(a)(i);

 (c) subsection 14(9);

 (d) subsections 16(1) and (2);

 (e) subparagraph 17(2)(a)(i).

2  Section 21 (heading)

Omit “to the Minister”.