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interception direction or an oral interception direction; and
(c)
the sole purpose of the interception is to prevent such bodily harm,
intercept any communication or may orally request a telecommunication service provider
to route duplicate signals of indirect communications specified in that request to the
interception centre designated therein.
(2) A telecommunication service provider must, upon receipt of a request made to him
or her in terms of subsection (1), route the duplicate signals of the indirect
communications concerned to the designated interception centre.
(3) The law enforcement officer who made a request under subsection (1) must as
soon as practicable after making that request, furnish the telecommunication service
provider concerned with a written confirmation of the request which sets out the
information given by that law enforcement officer to that telecommunication service
provider in connection with the request.
(4) The law enforcement officer who intercepts a communication under subsection (1)
or (2) must, as soon as practicable after the interception of the communication
concerned, submit to a designated judge(a)
a copy of the written confirmation referred to in subsection (3);
(b)
an affidavit setting forth the results and information obtained from
that interception; and
(c)
any recording of the communication that has been obtained by means
of that interception, any full or partial transcript of the recording and
any notes made by that law enforcement officer of the communication
if nothing in the communication suggests that bodily harm, attempted
bodily harm or threatened bodily harm has been caused or is likely to
be caused.
(5) A telecommunication service provider who, in terms of subsection (2), has routed
duplicate signals of indirect communications to the designated interception centre must,
as soon as practicable thereafter, submit an affidavit to a designated judge setting forth
the steps taken by that telecommunication service provider in giving effect to the request
concerned and the results obtained from such steps.
(6) A designated judge must keep all written confirmations and affidavits and any
recordings, transcripts or notes submitted to him or her in terms of subsections (4) and
(5), or cause it to be kept, for a period of at least five years.
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Interception of communication for purposes of determining location in
case of emergency
(1) In circumstances where(a)
a person is a party to a communication;
(b)
that person, as a result of information received from another party to
the communication (in this section referred to as the 'sender'), has
reasonable grounds to believe that an emergency exists by reason of
the fact that the life of another person, whether or not the sender, is
being endangered or that he or she is dying or is being or has been
seriously injured or that his or her life is likely to be endangered or
that he or she is likely to die or to be seriously injured; and
(c)
the location of the sender is unknown to that person,
the person referred to in paragraph (a) may, if he or she is-
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