clause 34 provides that the Attorney-General must, if the request is in relation to an
offence punishable with at least 5 years imprisonment, take all appropriate measures to
obtain necessary authorisation (including any warrants) to execute the request
accordingly.
2.42
Clause 35 of the Bill empowers the Minister responsible for communications to
designate a point of contact or ‘24/7 network’, who must be available on a twenty-four
hour, seven-day-a-week basis, in order to ensure the provision of immediate assistance
for the purpose of investigations or proceedings concerning criminal offences related
to computer systems and data, or for the collection of evidence in electronic form of a
criminal offence. Clause 35 also provides that the point of contact must be properly
resourced and that the point of contact also has the authority to coordinate and enable
access to international mutual assistance under the Bill.
2.43
Part 7 of the Bill provides the miscellaneous provisions.
2.44
Clause 36 of the Bill empowers the Minister responsible for communications
(‘Minister’) to make regulations to prescribe matters that are required or permitted by
the Bill to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying
out or giving effect to the Bill and generally for achieving the purposes of the Bill.
Clause 36 of the Bill also empowers the Minister to make regulations prescribing
offences and penalties not exceeding, in the case of an individual a fine of $50,000 or
imprisonment for a term of 15 years or both, or in the case of a body corporate a fine
of $200,000.
3.0
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY
3.1
The Bill comes under the responsibility of the Minister responsible for
communications.
A. SAYED-KHAIYUM
Attorney-General
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