In the Government Communications
Security Bureau’s Annual Report for the year ended 30
June 2013, there are errors on page 22 of the report
relating to the number of warrants and authorisations.
The error is because of record keeping and we reported
the number of operations rather than the number of
warrants. This means if there was more than one warrant or
authorisation for an operation there has been an under
count.
The GCSB Annual Report reported warrants and
authorisations and actual warrants and authorisations are as
follows:
Warrants
Authorisations
In
force
7 /
11
14 /
26
Issued
4 /
5
9 / 11
An
erratum has been issued, and the Inspector General of
Intelligence and Security has been informed.
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