Review of the listing of four terrorist organisations

Section 102.1A of the Criminal Code Act 1995 provides that the Committee may review a regulation which lists an organisation as a terrorist organisation and report its comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period for that House. The disallowance period is 15 sitting days.

Submissions are invited for this review. Closing date for submissions is 29 July 2005.

The Committee is due to report to the House of Representatives and to the Senate before 5 September 2005.

To access the Attorney-General's statement of reasons for each of these organisations, please see the Attorney-General's media releases at http://www.ag.gov.au

Inquiry information

Information papers:

Hizballah External Security Organisation (PDF 403KB)
Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (PDF 503KB)
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (PDF 405KB)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PDF 334KB)