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Surveillance Devices Act 1999
9CProhibition on communication or publication of activities or conversations permitted to be observed etc.
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9C Prohibition on communication or publication of activities or conversations permitted to be observed etc.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not knowingly communicate or publish a record or report of an activity or conversation observed, listened to, recorded or monitored by the use of an optical surveillance device or a listening device in the circumstances referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 9B(2).
1. In the case of a natural person, level 7 imprisonment (2 years maximum) or a level 7 fine (240 penalty units maximum) or both;
In any other case, 1200 penalty units.
Note to s. 9C(1) inserted by No. 13/2013 s. 42(1).
(a) if the activity or conversation was observed, listened to, recorded or monitored in the circumstances referred to in section 9B(2)(a), to a communication or publication of protected information; or
(b) if the activity or conversation was observed, listened to, recorded or monitored in the circumstances referred to in section 9B(2)(b), to a communication or publication authorised by a law of the Commonwealth relating to the security of the Commonwealth; or
(c) if the activity or conversation was observed, listened to, recorded or monitored in the circumstances referred to in section 9B(2)(c), to a communication or publication authorised by or under the **Liquor Control Reform Act 1998** or the licence granted under that Act.
S. 9D