1Telecommunications (Interception and Access) (Enforcement Agency—Corrective Services NSW) Declaration 2025

Commonwealth Coat of Arms

LIN 25/128

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) (Enforcement Agency—Corrective Services NSW) Declaration 2025

I, the Hon Tony Burke MP, Minister for Home Affairs, make this declaration.

Dated 26 November 2025

Signed

The Hon Tony Burke MP

Minister for Home Affairs

1 Name

This instrument is the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) (Enforcement Agency—Corrective Services NSW) Declaration 2025.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after registration.

Note: See paragraph 176A(10)(b) of the Act for cessation of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 176A of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.

enforcement agency has the same meaning given by section 176A of the Act.

5 Declaration

(1) The declaration under this section is subject to the condition set out in section 6. (2) For paragraph 176A(3)(a) of the Act, Corrective Services NSW is declared as an enforcement agency. (3) For paragraph 176A(3)(b) of the Act, each staff member of Corrective Services NSW is declared to be officers of the enforcement agency declared by subsection (1) for the purposes of the Act.

6 Conditions

Under subsection 176A(6) of the Act, the declaration under section 5 is subject to the condition that officers mentioned in subsection 5(3) are not to exercise the power under section 180Q of the Act.

Note: Corrective Services NSW is taken not to be an enforcement agency for the purposes of section 180Q of the Act: subsection 176A(7) of the Act.