Bill
Intelligence Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Cyber Security) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-11-29. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-11-18
- other — 2024-11-19
- second reading — 2024-11-19
- second reading — 2024-11-19
- committee — 2024-11-19
- other — 2024-11-20
- third reading — 2024-11-20
- introduced — 2024-11-25
- second reading — 2024-11-25
- second reading — 2024-11-25
- second reading — 2024-11-25
- committee — 2024-11-25
- third reading — 2024-11-25
- passed — 2024-11-25
- royal assent — 2024-11-29
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-10-09.
The bill would create a legal obligation on the Australian Signals Directorate to limit how it shares information that entities voluntarily provide about cyber security incidents.
The obligation applies to 'limited cyber security information' that is voluntarily given to ASD or acquired or prepared by ASD with consent, and ASD may only share it for permitted cyber security purposes.
The bill also exempts documents given to or received by the National Cyber Security Coordinator from Freedom of Information requests.
- Establishes a limited use obligation on ASD for cyber security information provided during an impacted entity's engagement about a cyber security incident.
- Amends the Freedom of Information Act 1982 to exempt documents given to or received by the National Cyber Security Coordinator from FOI requests.
- Provides protections for limited cyber security information in court proceedings, making it inadmissible against the impacted entity with certain exceptions.
Entities that voluntarily provide cyber security information to ASD, and the Australian Signals Directorate itself.
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