Section 77Part 8 — Service Standards and Data Protection
Refusal to produce records to police officer
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Subject to subsection (2), an ICT licensee who —
without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to produce any document, message, record, thing, statement or information (whether in electronic form or otherwise) relating to its ICT network, ICT service or the users thereof and required by a constable of the rank of Inspector or above, upon the written request of a constable of the rank of Inspector or above, for the prevention or detection of crime or for the purposes of any criminal proceedings;
without reasonable excuse, destroys or alters, or causes to be destroyed or altered, any document, message, record, thing, statement or information (whether in electronic form or otherwise) relating to its ICT network, ICT service or the users thereof and required, upon the written request of a constable of the rank of Inspector or above, to be produced for the prevention or detection of crime or for the purposes of any criminal proceedings; or
knowingly gives false or misleading information to any constable requiring the information, upon the written request of a constable of the rank of Inspector or above, for the prevention or detection of crime or for the purposes of any criminal proceedings,
commits an offence and is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.
Subsection (I) applies to any document (including a reverse directory), message, record, thing, statement or information (whether in electronic form or otherwise) held by an ICT licensee and relating to its ICT network, ICT service or the users thereof, other than any such message transmitted earlier than the 15th November, 2000.