Foreign Investment Reform (Protecting Australia's National Security) Regulations 2020 (F2020L01568)

Schedule 1   National security

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015

2   Section 5

Insert:

defence and intelligence personnel means:

(a) a member of the Australian Defence Force; or

(b) in relation to the Defence Department - the following:

(i) an APS employee in the Department;

(ii) a consultant engaged by the Secretary of the Department on behalf of the Commonwealth;

(iii) a person whose services are made available to the Department under an arrangement entered into by the Secretary of the Department on behalf of the Commonwealth; or

(c) in relation to an agency in the national intelligence community - the following:

(i) a member of the staff of the agency;

(ii) a consultant engaged by the agency;

(iii) a person whose services are made available to the agency or the head (however described) of the agency.

Defence Department means the Department of State that deals with defence and that is administered by the Minister administering section 1 of the Defence Act 1903.