Industry assistance Schedule 1 Amendments Part 1 1 Division 3—Technical assistance notices 2 317L Technical assistance notices (1) The Director-General of Security or the chief officer of an interception agency may give a designated communications provider a notice, to be known as a technical assistance notice, that requires the provider to do one or more specified acts or things that: (a) are in connection with any or all of the eligible activities of the provider; and (b) are covered by subsection (2). 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Note: 11 12 Section 317ZK deals with the terms and conditions on which such a requirement is to be complied with. (2) The specified acts or things must be by way of giving help to: (a) in a case where the technical assistance notice is given by the Director-General of Security—ASIO; or (b) in a case where the technical assistance notice is given by the chief officer of an interception agency—the agency; in relation to: (c) the performance of a function, or the exercise of a power, conferred by or under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, so far as the function or power relates to: (i) enforcing the criminal law and laws imposing pecuniary penalties; or (ii) assisting the enforcement of the criminal laws in force in a foreign country; or (iii) safeguarding national security; or (d) a matter that facilitates, or is ancillary or incidental to, a matter covered by paragraph (c). 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Listed acts or things 29 (3) The acts or things that may be specified in a technical assistance notice given to a designated communications provider include (but are not limited to) listed acts or things, so long as those acts or things: 30 31 32 33 No. , 2018 Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 25