New Zealand Legislation: Acts

15 Network operators have lead-in time to attain interception capability

• (1) Section 7 does not require a network operator to have an interception capability on any public telecommunications network that the operator owns, controls, or operates, or any telecommunications service that the operator provides, at any time before the expiry of the period beginning on the date of commencement of this Act and ending,—

  • (a) in the case of a public switched telephone network or a telecommunications service, 18 months after that commencement; and

  • (b) in the case of a public data network, 5 years after that commencement.

  (2) However, any interception capability on a public telecommunications network or a telecommunications service that was in place, or that was the subject of an agreement between the Crown and a network operator, before the commencement of this Act must be developed, installed, and maintained as if subsection (1) and sections 16 and 17 had not been enacted.