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Membership
of the Committee
Senator Grant Chapman (Chair)
Mr Alan Griffin MP (Deputy Chair
to 18 September 2002)
Senator George Brandis
Senator
Stephen Conroy
Senator
Andrew Murray
Senator
Penny Wong (Deputy Chair from 18 September 2002)
Mr
Anthony Byrne MP
Mr
Steven Ciobo MP
Mr
Gregory Hunt MP
Mr
Stewart McArthur MP
Committee Staff
Ms
Bronwyn Meredith, Principal Research Officer
Dr
Kathleen Dermody, Secretary
Ms
Loes Slattery, Senior Research Officer
Ms
Cheryl Hardiman, Executive Assistant
Duties of the Committee
Section
243 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
sets out the duties of the Committee as follows:
The
Parliamentary Committee's duties are:
- to inquire
into, and report to both Houses on:
- activities
of ASIC or the Panel, or matters connected with such activities, to which, in
the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be
directed; or
- the
operation of the corporations legislation (other than the excluded provisions),
or of any other law of the Commonwealth, of a State or Territory or of a
foreign country that appears to the Parliamentary Committee to affect
significantly the operation of the corporations legislation (other than the
excluded provisions); and
- to examine each
annual report that is prepared by a body established by this Act and of which a
copy has been laid before a House, and to report to both Houses on matters that
appear in, or arise out of, that annual report and to which, in the
Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be
directed; and
- to inquire into
any question in connection with its duties that is referred to it by a House,
and to report to that House on that question.
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