Intelligence Services Amendment (Establishment of the Australian Signals Directorate) Bill 2018

Type: Government
Portfolio: Defence
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 45

Summary

Amends: the Intelligence Services Act 2001 to: establish the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) as an independent statutory agency within the Defence portfolio reporting directly to the Minister for Defence; amend ASD’s functions to include providing material, advice and other assistance to prescribed persons or bodies, and preventing and disrupting cybercrime; require the Director-General of ASD to brief the Leader of the Opposition about matters relating to ASD; and give the Director-General powers to employ persons as employees of ASD; and 18 Acts to make consequential amendments.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	15 Feb 2018
Second reading moved	15 Feb 2018
Second reading debate	28 Feb 2018
Second reading agreed to	28 Feb 2018
Third reading agreed to	28 Feb 2018

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	19 Mar 2018
Second reading moved	19 Mar 2018
Second reading debate	27 Mar 2018
Second reading debate	28 Mar 2018
Second reading agreed to	28 Mar 2018
Third reading agreed to	28 Mar 2018


Finally passed both Houses	28 Mar 2018
Assent Act no: 25 Year: 2018	11 Apr 2018

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Notes

Referred to Committee (15/02/2018): Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Committee report (21/03/2018)
Considered by scrutiny committee (21/03/2018): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 5 of 2018
Considered by scrutiny committee (27/03/2018): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 7 of 2018
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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