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1998-1999-2000-2001
The
Parliament of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Intelligence
Services (Consequential Provisions) Bill
2001
No. ,
2001
(Foreign
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to deal with
matters consequential on the enactment of the Intelligence Services Act
2001, and for related purposes
ISBN: 0642
459878
Contents
Part 1—Amendments 3
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act
1979 3
Remuneration and Allowances Act
1990 3
Part 2—Transitionals 5
Acts Interpretation Act
1901 7
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act
1977 7
Freedom of Information Act
1982 7
A Bill for an Act to deal with matters consequential on
the enactment of the Intelligence Services Act 2001, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Intelligence Services (Consequential
Provisions) Act 2001.
This Act commences at the same time as the Intelligence Services Act
2001.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
The Governor-General may make regulations providing for matters of a
transitional nature (including any saving or application provision) arising out
of the enactment of the Intelligence Services Act 2001, or the amendments
made by this Act.
Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation Act 1979
1 Section 4
Insert:
Committee on ASIO and ASIS means the Parliamentary Joint
Committee on ASIO and ASIS established under the Intelligence Services Act
2001.
2 Subsection 8A(6)
Omit “Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation”, substitute “Committee on ASIO and
ASIS”.
3 Subsection 92(1)
Omit “Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation”, substitute “Committee on ASIO and
ASIS”.
4 Part VA
Repeal the Part.
Remuneration and
Allowances Act 1990
5 Schedule 4 (table row relating to the
Chair, Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Security Intelligence
Organisation)
Repeal the row.
6 Schedule 4 (after the table row relating
to the Chair, Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime
Authority)
Insert:
|
Chair, Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO and ASIS |
7 Definitions
In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
commencement day means the day on which Part 1
commences.
new committee means the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO
and ASIS established under the Intelligence Services Act 2001.
old committee means the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation constituted under
Part VA.
Part VA means Part VA of the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, as in force immediately before the
commencement day.
transfer time means the time at which the new committee is
first established.
8 Continuation of old
committee
Despite the repeal of Part VA:
(a) the old Committee continues in existence until the transfer time,
under the name it had immediately before the commencement day, as if the
amendments made by Part 1 had not been made; and
(b) the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 and
the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990 continue to operate in respect
of the old committee until the transfer time as if the amendments made by
Part 1 had not been made.
9 Records etc.
At the transfer time, any records that were in the custody, or under the
control, of the old committee immediately before the transfer time are
transferred to the new committee by force of this item.
1 Subsection 17(9)
Omit “, before completing the inquiry,”.
2 Subsection 19(2)
Repeal the subsection.
3 Subsection 26(1)
Omit “3”, substitute “5”.
4 After subsection 35(2A)
Insert:
(2B) The Inspector-General must include in a report prepared under
subsection (1) the Inspector-General’s comments on the extent of
compliance by ASIS and DSD, during the year to which the report relates, with
rules made under section 15 of the Intelligence Services Act
2001.
Note: The rules referred to in subsection (2B) regulate
the communication and retention of intelligence
information.
1 Subsection 34C(8)
After “Organisation”, insert “, the Australian Secret
Intelligence Service”.
Administrative Decisions
(Judicial Review) Act 1977
2 Paragraph (d) of
Schedule 1
Before “Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act
1956”, insert:
Intelligence Services Act 2001
Freedom of Information Act
1982
3 Schedule 3
Insert in its appropriate alphabetical position, determined on a
letter-by-letter basis:
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Intelligence Services Act 2001, subsection 41(1) |