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

Schedule 4   Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act amendments

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

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4A Meaning of counter-terrorism and national security legislation

(1) Counter-terrorism and national security legislation means:

(a) laws of the Commonwealth that relate to counter-terrorism or national security; and

(b) laws of the Commonwealth to the extent that they relate to counter-terrorism or national security.

(2) Counter-terrorism and national security legislation includes the following:

(a) the Intelligence Services Act 2001;

(b) the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979;

(c) the Office of National Intelligence Act 2018;

(d) the Telecommunications Act 1997, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 to the extent that they relate to the exercise of powers by an agency within the national intelligence community;

(e) Subdivision C of Division 3 of Part 2 of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (citizenship cessation) and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Subdivision;

(f) Part 4 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Part;

(g) the following provisions of the Crimes Act 1914:

(i) Division 3A of Part IAA and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Division;

(ii) sections 15AA and 19AG and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to those sections;

(iii) Part IC, to the extent that the provisions of that Part relate to the investigation of terrorism offences (within the meaning of that Act), and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Part;

(h) Chapter 5 of the Criminal Code and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Chapter;

(j) Part IIIAAA of the Defence Act 1903 and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Part;

(k) the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004;

(l) Part 2 of the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Act 2019 and any other provision of that Act as far as it relates to that Part;

(m) a law, or a provision of a law, of the Commonwealth prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3) To avoid doubt, subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).