# Authorising access to video recordings

> act-s261AKC — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

261AKC Authorising access to video recordings
          (1) The Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner may, in
              writing, authorise a specified person, or any person included in a
              specified class of persons, to access:
                (a) all video recordings; or
               (b) a specified video recording, or video recordings of a
                    specified kind.
          (2) The Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner must
              specify in an authorisation under this section, as the purpose or
              purposes for which access is authorised, one or more of the
              following purposes:
                (a) providing a video recording to another person in accordance
                    with this Subdivision;
                (b) administering or managing the storage of video recordings;
                (c) making a video recording available to the person to whom it
                    relates;
                (d) modifying related documents in order to correct errors or
                    ensure compliance with appropriate standards;
                (e) any purpose connected with determining whether a civil or
                    criminal liability has arisen from a person carrying out or
                    helping to carry out an identification test under this Act;








                  (f) complying with laws of the Commonwealth or the States or
                      Territories.
          (3) However, the Secretary or Australian Border Force Commissioner
              must not specify as a purpose for which access is authorised a
              purpose that will include or involve the purpose of:
                (a) investigating an offence against a law of the Commonwealth
                     or a State or Territory (other than an offence involving
                     whether an identification test was carried out lawfully); or
                (b) prosecuting a person for such an offence;
              if the identifying information in question relates to a personal
              identifier of a prescribed type.