Telecommunications Act s 306 Law Enforcement Disclosure Record

Records that carriers and carriage service providers must make of disclosures of protected information (Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) Part 13, s 276 primary offence) to law enforcement and enforcement agencies: the s 306 record (made within 5 days of the disclosure and kept for 3 years) and the s 306A record for prospective authorisations. A populated record gives the name of the person who disclosed the information, the date of disclosure, the grounds (for example s 280 authorised by law, s 313 assistance), warrant or authorisation details including authorisations under ss 178, 179 or 180 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, the authorising officer and date, the requesting agency and request date, the service disclosed and the s 187AA data-set items. The same fields appear in agency authorisation / request notices received by the provider. OAIC guidance, the Acts, ACMA and TIA Act annual report statistics and blank templates are decoys. Overlaps with lawful-interception-warrant, which covers interception and stored communications warrants (TIA Act secrecy) rather than Part 13 disclosure records; a record that cites the TIA Act next to a service number may also fire that classifier.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the s 306/306A record fields and TIA Act authorisation sections are specific, but OAIC guidance, carrier compliance manuals and legislation repeat them, and "record of disclosure" is also used for Privacy Act APP 6 notes. Enforce tiers require populated disclosure fields. Agency request and authorisation reference formats vary by agency and are matched only as labelled values containing a digit. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic (service numbers from the ACMA fictitious 0491 570 range).
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth), Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (Cth)
Frameworks: PSPF, QGISCF
Data categories: law-enforcement, pii, telecom
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 9
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:section|s\.?)\s?306A?\s+(?:record|register|disclosure)s?|record\s+of\s+(?:the\s+)?disclosure|disclosure\s+(?:record|register)|Part\s+13\s+(?:disclosure|record)s?|(?:section|s\.?)\s?(?:276|280|313)\s+(?:of\s+the\s+)?Telecommunications\s+Act|Telecommunications\s+Act\s+1997|prospective\s+(?:data\s+)?authori[sz]ation|authori[sz]ation\s+under\s+(?:section|s\.?)\s?(?:178|179|180)[AB]?|(?:section|s\.?)\s?(?:178|179|180)[AB]?\s+authori[sz]ation)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

enforcement agency, criminal law-enforcement agency, police, Australian Federal Police, AFP, QPS, ASIO, TIA Act, 187AA, subscriber details, call charge records

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Section 306 record of disclosure Name of person who disclosed the information: Kira Fakesmith, Law Enforcement Liaison Date of disclosure: 16/09/2026 Grounds for the disclosure: s 280 - authorised by TIA Act s 178 (existing information) Authorising officer: Det Sgt R. Nolander, Queensland Police Service Date of authorisation: 15/09/2026 Service number: 0491 570 156 Information disclosed: subscriber details and call charge records, 187AA items 1 and 2 — 85 tier - s 306 record with discloser, dates, grounds, authoriser, service and data set plus TIA Act / QPS / 187AA
Prospective authorisation (TIA Act s 180) - s 306A record Date of first disclosure: 01/09/2026 Date of last disclosure: 14/09/2026 Requesting agency: Australian Federal Police Location data for the service was provided daily to the enforcement agency. — 85 tier - s 306A record with first/last disclosure dates and requesting agency plus enforcement agency
Part 13 disclosure register entry Agency reference: QPS-2026-88412 The account holder's name and address were provided to police under s 313 assistance. — 75 tier - register entry with one populated reference field
Authorisation under section 179 of the TIA Act Enforcement agency: Crime and Corruption Commission Service number: 0491 570 110 Period: 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026. Please disclose historical subscriber details and call charge records. — 85 tier - agency authorisation received by the carrier with agency and service fields plus subscriber details / call charge records

Should not match

Under section 306 of the Telecommunications Act 1997, carriers and carriage service providers must make a record of each disclosure within five days, including the name of the person who disclosed the information, the date of the disclosure and the grounds for the disclosure. Records must be retained for three years. See oaic.gov.au. — OAIC guidance
Section 306 record of disclosure Name of person who disclosed the information: __________ Date of disclosure: __________ Grounds for the disclosure: __________ Service number: [service] — Blank disclosure record template
306A Record of disclosures - prospective authorisations. (1) If a disclosure is made because of an authorisation under section 180 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, the person who made the disclosure must make a record. Compilation No. 112, Federal Register of Legislation. — Legislation text
Enforcement agencies made 312,000 authorisations for access to existing information under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 in 2024-25, according to the Act's annual report. — Annual report statistics
The ACMA communications report says carriers made 1.1 million disclosures under Part 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1997, most to police for the enforcement of the criminal law. — News / ACMA statistics

Known false positives

OAIC guidance, legislation and carrier compliance manuals list the s 306/306A record fields. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated fields and exclude oaic.gov.au / legislation.gov.au, "must make a record", "Compilation No." and guidance signals.
Annual reports (TIA Act annual report, ACMA communications report) publish aggregate disclosure and authorisation numbers. Mitigation: No populated fields and "annual report" / "communications report" signals are excluded, so these stay at 65 discovery.
Privacy Act APP 6.5 written notes of disclosures to enforcement bodies by non-telco organisations use "record of disclosure". Mitigation: They reach 75 only with a populated field; they are also law-enforcement disclosures of comparable sensitivity.