(1)

The chief officer of a law enforcement agency must cause the following to be kept:

(a) a statement as to whether each application made by or on behalf of a law enforcement officer of the agency for a warrant, or for the extension or variation of a warrant, was granted, refused or withdrawn;
(b) a statement as to whether each application made by a law enforcement officer of the agency for an emergency authorisation was granted, refused or withdrawn;
(c) a statement as to whether each application made by or on behalf of an appropriate authorising officer for approval of the giving of an emergency authorisation to a law enforcement officer of the agency was granted, refused or withdrawn;
(d) a statement as to whether each application made by a law enforcement officer of the agency for a tracking device authorisation was granted, refused or withdrawn;
(e) details of each use by the agency, or by a law enforcement officer of the agency, of information obtained by the use of a surveillance device by a law enforcement officer of the agency;
(f) details of each communication by a law enforcement officer of the agency to a person other than a law enforcement officer of the agency of information obtained by the use of a surveillance device by a law enforcement officer of the agency;
(g) details of each occasion when, to the knowledge of a law enforcement officer of the agency, information obtained by the use of a surveillance device by a law enforcement officer of the agency was given in evidence in a relevant proceeding;
(h) details of each occasion when, to the knowledge of a law enforcement officer of the agency, information obtained by the use of a surveillance device by a law enforcement officer of the agency was used in the location and safe recovery of a child to whom a recovery order related;
(j) details of the destruction of records or reports under paragraph 46(1)(b).

(2)

An instrument recording a matter for the purposes of subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 .