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Form 6A—Stored communications warrant—international
Commonwealth of Australia
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
STORED COMMUNICATIONS WARRANT
| Person in respect of whom warrant is issued | [full known name, other known names, other known identifying information (e.g. date of birth)] |
|---|---|
| Applicant criminal law‑enforcement agency | [name] |
| Person making application on behalf of applicant criminal law‑enforcement agency | [full name] |
Note: See subsections 119(4) and (5) of the Act in relation to issuing a further warrant in respect of a person in respect of whom a previous warrant was issued.
1 Authorisation
(1) I, [name], an issuing authority within the meaning of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (the Act), acting under section 116 of the Act, authorise the accessing of any stored communication: (a) that was made by the person mentioned above, or that another person has made and for which the intended recipient is the person mentioned above; and (b) that becomes, or became, a stored communication before the warrant is first executed in relation to the carrier that holds the communication. (2) I am satisfied, on the basis of the information given to me under Part 3‑3 of the Act in connection with the application for this warrant, that: (a) Division 1 of Part 3‑3 of the Act has been complied with in relation to the application for this warrant; and *(b) because of urgent circumstances, it was necessary to make the application by telephone; and (c) there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that *a particular carrier holds/*particular carriers hold stored communications: (i) that the person mentioned above has made; or (ii) that another person has made and for which the person mentioned above is the intended recipient; and (d) information that would be likely to be obtained by accessing those stored communications under a stored communications warrant would be likely to assist in connection with the investigation, investigative proceeding, or proceeding by [name of entity to which the application relates], of the following *serious foreign contravention/*serious foreign contraventions in which the person mentioned above is involved: [short particulars of each serious foreign contravention]; and (e) the warrant should be issued having regard to the following matters only: (i) how much the privacy of any person or persons would be likely to be interfered with by accessing those stored communications under a stored communications warrant; (ii) the gravity of the conduct constituting each serious foreign contravention; (iii) how much the information referred to in paragraph (d) would be likely to assist in connection with the investigation, investigative proceeding, or proceeding by [name of entity to which the application relates], of each serious foreign contravention, to the extent that this is possible to determine from information obtained from [name of entity to which the application relates].