Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Act 2025 (75 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Consequential amendments commencing with the main amendments

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

355   At the end of section 186F

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Exchange of information between Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and State inspecting authorities

(4) If an IGIS official has obtained, under the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986, information relating to an authority of a State or Territory about the performance of functions of an intelligence agency (within the meaning of that Act) and its officers relating to:

(a) Chapter 3 or 4 of this Act; or

(b) Part 15 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 in relation to the performance of a function, or the exercise of a power, conferred by that Part of that Act in connection with a stored communications warrant or an authorisation under Division 3, 4 or 4A of Part 4-1 of this Act;

the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security may give the information to an inspecting authority of that State or Territory (within the meaning of subsection (5)).

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), an inspecting authority of a State or Territory is an authority:

(a) that has powers under the law of that State or Territory; and

(b) has the function of making inspections of a similar kind to those provided for in section 9A of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 when the inspecting authority is exercising those powers.

(6) However, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security may give the information only if the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security is satisfied that giving the information is necessary to enable the inspecting authority to perform its functions in relation to the authority of the State or Territory.

(7) The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security may receive, from an inspecting authority, information that:

(a) relates to the performance of functions of an intelligence agency (within the meaning of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and SecurityAct 1986) relating to the provisions mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) or (b); and

(b) is relevant to the performance of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security's functions under the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986.