Provision 28(1) amending the Surveillance Devices Act would already authorise data access for any senior officer of the law enforcement agencies.
50 After subsection 28(1)
Insert:
(1A) A law enforcement officer may apply to an appropriate authorising officer for an emergency authorisation for access to data held in a computer (the target computer) if, in the course of an investigation of a relevant offence, the law enforcement officer reasonably suspects that:
(a) an imminent risk of serious violence to a person or substantial damage to property exists; and
(b) access to data held in the target computer is immediately necessary for the purpose of dealing with that risk; and
(c) the circumstances are so serious and the matter is of such urgency that access to data held in the target computer is
warranted; and
(d) it is not practicable in the circumstances to apply for a computer access warrant.
I was pretty gob smacked.
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Paul Wilkins