Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749:section:128
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 128
Character Range: 518001–519171

128  Provision of technical assistance
 (1) Despite subsection 127(1), a designated officer, or an employee of a carrier, may provide technical assistance to an officer or staff member of a criminal law‑enforcement agency who is exercising the authority conferred by a stored communications warrant.
 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the provision of technical assistance includes (but is not limited to):
 (a) the doing of any act in connection with:
 (i) the installation of equipment for the purposes of accessing stored communications in accordance with a stored communications warrant; or
 (ii) the maintenance, testing or use of such equipment; or
 (iii) the removal of such equipment; and
 (b) the doing of any act involved in the accessing of a stored communication under a stored communications warrant, to the extent that the act is incidental to the doing of an act referred to in paragraph (a).
 (3) The chief officer of a criminal law‑enforcement agency or a person who is an approving officer for a criminal law‑enforcement agency under subsection 127(3) may, in writing, declare persons to be designated officers for the purposes of this section.