Bill
Security of Critical Infrastructure (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-04-11. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-12-07
- second reading — 2017-12-07
- second reading — 2018-03-28
- second reading — 2018-03-28
- committee — 2018-03-28
- third reading — 2018-03-28
- introduced — 2018-03-28
- second reading — 2018-03-28
- second reading — 2018-03-28
- third reading — 2018-03-28
- passed — 2018-03-28
- royal assent — 2018-04-11
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 2017-12-07.
This bill would amend the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 to align it with the proposed Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill 2017.
The amendments would ensure that adverse security assessments made under a ministerial directions power in the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill are subject to notification requirements under section 38A of the ASIO Act, not section 38.
The government says the amendments implement recommendations from a Parliamentary Joint Committee report of March 2018 and have nil financial impact.
- Amends the ASIO Act to reflect the operation of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill.
- Makes a technical correction so that adverse security assessments related to the directions power are notified under section 38A, removing ministerial power to withhold notice from the assessed party.
- Inserts new words into the heading of section 38A to cover directions under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act.
- Inserts new subsection 38A(1A) to apply notification requirements to assessments given in connection with clause 32(2) of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill.
The amendments affect the Attorney-General, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and persons subject to adverse security assessments under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill.
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