42Annual report

42 Annual report

42 Annual report

(1) The Minister must, as soon as practicable after 31 December in each year, prepare a report in respect of operations pursuant to covert surveillance authorities during the year and table the report, or cause it to be tabled, in both Houses of Parliament as soon as practicable after it is prepared.

(1A) If a House of Parliament is not sitting when the Minister seeks to lay the report before it, the Minister is to cause a copy of the report to be presented to the Clerk of that House of Parliament.

(1B) A report presented under subsection (1A)—

(a) is, on presentation and for all purposes, taken to have been laid before the House, and

(b) may be printed by authority of the Clerk of the House, and

(c) if so printed, is taken to be a document published by or under the authority of the House, and

(d) is to be recorded—

(i) in the case of the Legislative Council—in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, and

(ii) in the case of the Legislative Assembly—in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly,

on the first sitting day of the House after receipt of the copy of the report by the Clerk.

(2) A report under this section—

(a) must include details of the number of covert surveillance authorities sought, and the number of such authorities issued (together with a breakdown of the kinds of surveillance to which those issued authorities related), during the year to which the report relates, and

(b) may report on such other matters relating to covert surveillance authorities and the use of covert surveillance as the Minister considers appropriate.

s 42: Am 2014 No 14, Sch 1.5.