CORRUPTION
AND CRIME COMMISSION — TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION WARRANTS
1237. Hon MICHAEL MISCHIN to the Leader of the House
representing the Attorney General:
(1) Is the
Attorney General notified of telecommunications interception warrants obtained
by the Corruption and Crime Commission?
(2) Does that information include
the person named in the warrant?
(3) Has the
Attorney General revealed, directly or indirectly, to the Premier or to any of
his cabinet colleagues whether current or former members of this Parliament
have been named in any such warrant obtained by the Corruption and Crime
Commission?
(4) If yes to (3), to whom has the Attorney General
revealed that information and when and in what circumstances?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(2) Yes,
the chief officer of an eligible authority is required by section 6(1)(a) of
the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Western Australia Act 1996 to,
amongst other things, provide the Attorney General
with a copy of each warrant issued to the relevant authority as soon as
practicable after the issue of the warrant.
(3)–(4) The
Attorney General is subject to confidentiality requirements, as set out in
section 22(1) of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Western Australia
Act 1996, that prescribe when information
obtained under the act can be disclosed. I can confirm that the Attorney General
has complied with those obligations.