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	WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE ACT 2005 - As at 1 February 2007 - Act 47 of 2005 TABLE OF PROVISIONS            Long Title    PART 1 - PRELIMINARY    1.      Name of Act    2.      Commencement    3.      Definitions    4.      Extended meaning of “employer” when corporations related    5.      Meaning of “at work”    6.      Act to bind Crown    7.      Notes    8.      Relationship with OHS Act    PART 2 - NOTIFICATION OF WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE OF EMPLOYEES    Note    9.      Application of Part    10.     Notice of surveillance required    11.     Additional requirements for camera surveillance    12.     Additional requirements for computer surveillance    13.     Additional requirements for tracking surveillance    14.     Exemption for certain surveillance by agreement    PART 3 - PROHIBITED SURVEILLANCE    15.     Surveillance of change rooms and bathrooms prohibited    16.     Prohibition on surveillance using work surveillance device while employee not at work    17.     Restrictions on blocking emails or Internet access    18.     Restrictions on use and disclosure of surveillance records—notified surveillance    PART 4 - COVERT SURVEILLANCE OF EMPLOYEES AT WORK            Division 1 - Restrictions on covert surveillance    19.     Covert surveillance prohibited without covert surveillance authority    20.     What covert surveillance authority authorises    21.     Exceptions—law enforcement, correctional centres, courts, casino    22.     Defence—surveillance for security of the workplace            Division 2 - Covert surveillance authorities    23.     Application for covert surveillance authority    24.     Dealing with application    25.     Grounds for issue of covert surveillance authority    26.     Privacy must be considered    27.     Surveillance supervisor    28.     Form of covert surveillance authority    29.     Duration and conditions of covert surveillance authority    30.     Contravention of condition of authority    31.     Variation or cancellation of authority    32.     Further application for authority after refusal    33.     Records relating to covert surveillance authority    34.     Defects in authority    35.     Report on use of authority            Division 3 - Covert surveillance records    36.     Storage of surveillance records of covert surveillance    37.     Covert surveillance records may be used or disclosed for relevant purpose only    38.     Information obtained inadvertently pursuant to authority    PART 5 - MISCELLANEOUS    39.     Commonwealth laws    40.     Functions under Act of Magistrates    41.     Application to judicial member of Industrial Relations Commission    42.     Annual report    43.     Offences by corporations    44.     Regulations    45.     Summary procedure for offences    46.     Authority to prosecute    47.     Savings and transitional provisions    48.     Repeals    49.     Review of Act   SOURCE AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/wsa2005245/
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