Review of the listing of six terrorist organisations

Section 102.A of the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2004 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 sittings days.

Submissions are invited for this review. Closing date for submissions is 24 January 2005.

A private hearing will be held on 1 February 2005.

The Committee is due to report to the House of Representatives before 14 March 2005 and to the Senate before 10 May 2005.

The following information on the Armed Islamic Group was provided to the Committee by the Attorney-General, the Hon Philip Ruddock, MP. It is this material upon which the Committee will base its review of the listing of the Armed Islamic Group.

Information on the Armed Islamic Group (PDF 496KB)

Submissions

Private hearings

Media releases

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