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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Consequential amendments commencing with the main amendments

Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

105   After subsection 121(6)

Insert:

(6A) Subsection (5) or (6) does not apply if the disclosure of AUSTRAC information is to an IGIS official for the purposes of, or in connection with, the IGIS official performing a function or duty, or exercising a power, as an IGIS official.

Note: A defendant, except for an IGIS official, bears an evidential burden in relation to a matter in this subsection (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code). For IGIS officials, see section 34C of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986.