Amendments relating to Mutual Assistance Schedule 2 Stored communications Part 1 under section 110 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 if the Attorney-General is satisfied that: (a) an investigation, or investigative proceeding, relating to a criminal matter involving an offence against the law of a foreign country (the requesting country) has commenced in the requesting country; and (b) the offence to which the investigation, or investigative proceeding, relates is punishable by a maximum penalty of: (i) imprisonment for 3 years or more, imprisonment for life or the death penalty; or (ii) a fine of an amount that is at least equivalent to 900 penalty units; and (c) there are reasonable grounds to believe that stored communications relevant to the investigation, or investigative proceeding, are held by a carrier; and (d) the requesting country has requested the Attorney-General to arrange for access to the stored communications. Note: Information obtained under the warrant may only be communicated to the requesting country on certain conditions: see subsection 142A(1) of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 5 Subsection 5(1) Insert: investigative proceeding has the same meaning as in the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987. 6 Subsection 5(1) Insert: mutual assistance application means an application for a stored communications warrant made as a result of an authorisation under section 15B of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987. 7 After section 5E Insert: Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Act 2012 ComLaw Authoritative Act C2012A00120 No. 120, 2012 23

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