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the Principal Act, the following sections are inserted:

Register of Warrants

"81A.(1) The Commissioner of Police is to cause a Register of Warrants to be kept.

"(2) The Commissioner of Police is to cause to be recorded in the Register in relation to each warrant issued under section 45, 46 or 48 particulars of:

  (a) the date of issue of the warrant; and

  (b) the Judge who issued the warrant; and

  (c) the agency to which the warrant was issued; and

  (d) the telecommunications service to which the warrant relates; and

     (e) the name of the person specified in the warrant as a person using or likely to use the telecommunications service; and

  (f) the period for which the warrant is to be in force; and

     (g) each serious offence in relation to which the Judge who issued the warrant was satisfied, on the application for the warrant, as mentioned in paragraph 45(d) or 46(1)(d), as the case may be.

Regular submission of Register to Minister

"81B.(1) Within 3 months after the commencement of section 27 of the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Act 1993, the Commissioner of Police must deliver the Register to the Minister for inspection by the Minister.

"(2) Once at least within each succeeding period of 3 months, the Commissioner of Police must deliver to the Minister, for inspection by the Minister, any part of the Register that represents information recorded since the Register, or any part of the Register, was last delivered to the Minister.".

Functions of Ombudsman

28. Section 82 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

  "(a) to inspect a Commonwealth agency's records in order to ascertain:

      (i) the accuracy of entries in the Register; and

        (ii) so far as is practicable, the extent of compliance, in relation to those records, with sections 79, 80 and 81; and".

29. After section 92 of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted in Part VIII:

Exchange of information between Ombudsman and State inspecting authorities

  "92A.(1) In this section:

'State agency' means an eligible authority of a State that is an agency;

'State inspecting authority', in relation to a State agency, means the authority that, under the law of the State concerned, has the function of making inspections of the kind referred to in paragraph 35(1)(h).

  "(2) The Ombudsman may give information that:

  (a) relates to a State agency; and

  (b) was obtained by the Ombudsman under this Act;

to the authority that is the State inspecting authority in relation to the agency.

"(3) The Ombudsman may only give information to an authority under subsection (2) if the Ombudsman is satisfied that the giving of the information is necessary