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

347   At the end of section 185D

Add:

Enforcement agencies - reports relating to ACC

(9) If:

(a) the Inspector-General gives to the Minister a report under section 22 or 25A of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986; and

(b) the report relates (wholly or partly) to one or both of the following:

(i) a journalist information warrant issued to the ACC;

(ii) one or more authorisations, referred to in subsection (6) of this section, that were made by one or more authorised officers of the ACC;

the Minister must, as soon as practicable, cause a copy of the report to be given to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.

(10) The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security may request a briefing from the Inspector-General on:

(a) a journalist information warrant; or

(b) an authorisation or authorisations;

to which a report referred to in paragraph (9)(b) of this section relates.