Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00496:clause:1_317l
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00496
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 317L
Character Range: 66383–68332

317L  Technical assistance notices
 (1) The Director‑General of Security or the chief officer of an interception agency may give a designated communications provider a notice, to be known as a technical assistance notice, that requires the provider to do one or more specified acts or things that:
 (a) are in connection with any or all of the eligible activities of the provider; and
 (b) are covered by subsection (2).
Note: Section 317ZK deals with the terms and conditions on which such a requirement is to be complied with.
 (2) The specified acts or things must be by way of giving help to:
 (a) in a case where the technical assistance notice is given by the Director‑General of Security—ASIO; or
 (b) in a case where the technical assistance notice is given by the chief officer of an interception agency—the agency;
in relation to:
 (c) the performance of a function, or the exercise of a power, conferred by or under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, so far as the function or power relates to:
 (i) enforcing the criminal law, so far as it relates to serious Australian offences; or
 (ii) assisting the enforcement of the criminal laws in force in a foreign country, so far as those laws relate to serious foreign offences; or
 (iii) safeguarding national security; or
 (d) a matter that facilitates, or is ancillary or incidental to, a matter covered by paragraph (c).
 (2A) The specified acts or things must not be directed towards ensuring that a designated communications provider is capable of giving help to ASIO or an interception agency.

Listed acts or things
 (3) The acts or things specified in a technical assistance notice given to a designated communications provider must be listed acts or things, so long as those acts or things:
 (a) are in connection with any or all of the eligible activities of the provider; and
 (b) are covered by subsection (2).
Note: For listed acts or things, see section 317E.