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

368   At the end of clause 147 of Schedule 1

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Exchange of information between Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and State/Territory 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, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security may give the information to another authority of that State or Territory (an inspecting authority ) that:

(a) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) 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) with this Schedule; and

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