Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021

Summary

Amends: the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 to: introduce data disruption warrants to enable the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) to disrupt data by modifying, adding, copying or deleting data in order to frustrate the commission of serious offences online; and make minor technical corrections; the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 to introduce network activity warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to collect intelligence on serious criminal activity by permitting access to the devices and networks used to facilitate criminal activity; the Crimes Act 1914 to: introduce account takeover warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to take over a person's online account for the purposes of gathering evidence to further a criminal investigation; and make minor amendments to the controlled operations regime to ensure controlled operations can be conducted effectively in the online environment; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	03 Dec 2020
Second reading moved	03 Dec 2020
Second reading debate	24 Aug 2021
Second reading agreed to	24 Aug 2021
Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 60 Government agreed to	24 Aug 2021
Third reading agreed to	24 Aug 2021

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	25 Aug 2021
Second reading moved	25 Aug 2021
Second reading debate	25 Aug 2021
Second reading agreed to	25 Aug 2021
Committee of the Whole debate	25 Aug 2021
Third reading agreed to	25 Aug 2021


Finally passed both Houses	25 Aug 2021
Assent Act no: 98 Year: 2021	03 Sep 2021

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Third reading

As passed by both Houses

Explanatory memoranda

Addendum to explanatory memorandum

Explanatory memorandum

Revised explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

House of representatives

Government [QL187]

Senate

Australian Greens [sheet 1410]
THORPE, Sen Lidia

Independent [sheet 1412]
PATRICK, Sen Rex

Schedules of amendments

No documents at present

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

Referred to Committee (08/12/2020): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security; Committee report (05/08/2021)
Considered by scrutiny committee (29/01/2021): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 5 of 2021
Considered by scrutiny committee (03/02/2021): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 3 of 2021
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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Text of bill

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Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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