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Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
31CDestruction of records
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#### 31C Destruction of records
(1) If:
(a) information, or a record, that was obtained, in the course of developing or testing technologies or interception capabilities, by interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system is in a security authority’s possession; and
(b) the information or record is no longer required in relation to the development or testing;
the head (however described) of the security authority, or a person acting as that head, must cause the information or record to be destroyed as soon as practicable.
(2) The reference in paragraph (1)(a) to interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system includes a reference to the accessing of the communications as stored communications after they have ceased to pass over a telecommunications system.