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Surveillance Devices Act 2007
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#### 50A Police use of body-worn video
50A Police use of body-worn video
> > (1) The use of body-worn video by a police officer is in accordance with this section if—
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> > > (a) the police officer is acting in the execution of his or her duty, and
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> > > (b) the use of body-worn video is overt, and
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> > > (c) if the police officer is recording a private conversation, the police officer is in uniform or has provided evidence that he or she is a police officer to each party to the private conversation.
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> > (2) Without limiting the ways in which the use of body-worn video may be overt for the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the use of body-worn video is overt once the police officer informs the person who is to be recorded of the use of body-worn video by the police officer.
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> > (3) The use of body-worn video by a police officer is also in accordance with this section if—
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> > > (a) it is inadvertent or unexpected, or
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> > > (b) it is incidental to the use of body-worn video by the police officer in the circumstances set out in subsection (1).
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> **s 50A:** Ins 2014 No 81, Sch 1 \[8\].