Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00980:clause:3_1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00980
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 1
Character Range: 21356–22329

1  After subsection 6(2)
Insert:

Communications to emergency services numbers

 (2A) In this section, an emergency services number is a telephone number:
 (a) on which assistance in emergencies may be sought from:
 (i) a police force or service; or
 (ii) a fire service; or
 (iii) an ambulance service; and
 (b) that is specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph, or is in a class of numbers specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.

 (2B) If a person who is lawfully engaged in duties relating to the receiving and handling of communications to an emergency services number listens to or records a communication passing over a telecommunications system to the emergency services number, the listening or recording does not, for the purposes of this Act, constitute the interception of the communication.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 12 March 2002
Senate on 14 March 2002]
(40/02)