Terms of Reference

This inquiry and report is conducted under the following powers:

Criminal Code Act 1995

Section 102.1A  Reviews by Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Review of listing regulation

(1)   If a regulation made after the commencement of this section specifies an organisation for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in section 102.1, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security may:

(a)   review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and

(b)   report the Committee’s comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period.

And

Hizballah ESO

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2012 (No 6)

Registered: 11 May 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01016)

List of recommendations

The Listing

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list Hizballah’s External Security Organisation as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed.