Bill
Intelligence Services Amendment (Enhanced Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence Agencies) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- PATRICK, Sen Rex
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-08-14
- second reading — 2018-08-14
- other — 2019-07-01
- other — 2019-07-04
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2018-08-14.
This bill would expand the power of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to review intelligence agency operations.
The committee could examine and review operations and other activities, but a minister could order it to stop if the review involved an ongoing operation and would harm national security or foreign relations.
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security could review a minister's decision to stop a review and report back within 30 days.
- Removes most legislative prohibitions on the PJCIS reviewing intelligence operations.
- Allows a minister to certify that a review relates to an ongoing operation and must be stopped or suspended.
- Gives the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security power to review a minister's stoppage decision.
- Retains the prohibition on reviewing information from a foreign government without its consent.
- Retains the ban on reviewing individual complaints about intelligence agencies.
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, relevant ministers, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, and Australia’s ten national security and intelligence agencies.
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