Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I also present an addendum to the explanatory memorandum. By leave—I move government amendments (1) to (14) together:

(1) Schedule 1, page 5 (after line 9), after item 9, insert:

9A Subparagraph 34AAA(1) (a) (ix)

Omit "section 34ZB", substitute "subsection 34CC(5)".

(2) Schedule 1, item 10, page 15 (line 22), at the end of paragraph 34AD(1) (c), add:

; and (iv) is a Queen's Counsel or a Senior Counsel.

(3) Schedule 1, item 10, page 22 (line 20), after "the person", insert "as a primary consideration".

(4) Schedule 1, item 10, page 40 (line 14), after "a person", insert "(other than an IGIS official)".

(5) Schedule 1, item 10, page 40 (line 30), omit subparagraph 34D(11) (a) (iii), substitute:

  (iii) an IGIS official; or

  (iv) a police officer; or

(6) Schedule 1, item 10, page 41 (line 15), omit subparagraph 34DA(3) (a) (iii), substitute:

  (iii) an IGIS official; or

  (iv) a police officer; or

(7) Schedule 1, item 10, page 63 (line 26), omit "subparagraph 34FF(7) (c) (i)", substitute "subparagraph 34FF(7) (c) (iii)".

(8) Schedule 1, item 10, page 85 (after line 14), after subsection 34GF(3), insert:

Immunity from liability

(3A) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who discloses information if, as a result of the operation of a law of the Commonwealth, the person is not subject to any civil or criminal liability for the conduct.

Note 1: The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 provides that an individual is not subject to any civil or criminal liability for making a public interest disclosure.

Note 2: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in this subsection (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).

(9) Schedule 1, item 10, page 86 (lines 3 to 12), omit subparagraphs (a) (iv) and (v) of the definition of permitted disclosurein subsection 34GF(5), substitute:

  (iv) exercising a power (including a power to make a complaint or to give information), or performing a function or duty, under Part V of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979, the Ombudsman Act 1976 or a law of a State or Territory appointing or establishing a complaints agency;

(10) Schedule 1, item 10, page 86 (after line 12), after paragraph (a) of the definition of permitted disclosure in subsection 34GF(5), insert:

(aa) a disclosure made to or by an IGIS official for the purposes of the IGIS official exercising a power, or performing a function or duty, as an IGIS official;

(11) Schedule 1, item 10, page 86 (line 30) to page 87 (line 3), omit paragraph (f) of the definition of permitted disclosure in subsection 34GF(5), substitute:

(f) a disclosure to one or more of the following persons, by the subject of a minor questioning warrant, by a parent, guardian or sibling of the subject, or by a minor's representative for the subject, of information described in paragraph (1) (c) or (2) (c) of this section in relation to the warrant:

  (i) the subject;

  (ii) a minor's representative for the subject;

  (iii) a parent, guardian or sibling of the subject;

  (iv) a prescribed authority;

  (v) a person exercising authority under the warrant;

  (vi) an IGIS official;

  (vii) the Commonwealth Ombudsman;

  (viii) a complaints agency;

(12) Schedule 1, item 10, page 94 (line 2), omit "7 September 2030", substitute "7 September 2025".

(13) Schedule 1, Part 3, page 100 (after line 16), at the end of the Part, add:

Intelligence Services Act 2001

26A After paragraph 29(1) (cd)

Insert:

(ce) if the Committee resolves to do so—to commence, by 7 September 2023, a review of the operation, effectiveness and implications of Division 3 of Part III of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979; and

(14) Schedule 2, item 16, page 114 (lines 14 to 19), omit subsection 33(4), substitute:

(4) Nothing in this Division makes the use, installation, maintenance or recovery by the Organisation of a surveillance device lawful if the use, installation, maintenance or recovery would be prohibited under an applicable law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory (including the common law), unless the Organisation does so:

(a) in accordance with a warrant issued under section 26, 27A or 27C; or

(b) in accordance with an authorisation given under section 26G; or

(c) in accordance with subsection 26B(5) or (6), section 26C, 26D or 26E, or subsection 27A(3A) or (3B) or 27F(5).

Question agreed to.

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