42Record of emergency registration decision

42 Record of emergency registration decision

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after notifying the applicant police officer of the emergency registration of a person as a human source, the Chief Commissioner must record the registration in writing.

(2) The record of registration must be signed by the Chief Commissioner and must include the following information—

(a) the name of the human source;

(c) the purposes for which the human source has been registered;

(d) any conditions imposed on the emergency registration;

(e) the reasons for the emergency registration decision, including—

(i) the serious and imminent threat to national security, or the community or the life and welfare of any person; and

(ii) why the information or assistance that the human source was registered to provide cannot be obtained through any other reasonable means;

(f) any other information that the Chief Commissioner considers relevant to the emergency registration.

43 Chief Commissioner to assess whether human source registered on an emergency registration application is a reportable human source

As soon as reasonably practicable but within 2 business days after the making of an emergency registration, the Chief Commissioner must record the human source as—

(a) a reportable human source, if—

(i) the human source is a child; or

(ii) the human source is reasonably expected to have access to—

(B) privileged information in respect of which there is an exception to the privilege; or

(iii) the human source has a serious medical or mental health condition; or

(iv) the Chief Commissioner otherwise believes it is appropriate to record the human source as a reportable human source; or

(b) in any other case, a non-reportable human source.

The Chief Commissioner must notify the Public Interest Monitor as soon as practicable if the human source is recorded as a reportable human source: see section 56.