National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Amendment (Application) Act 2005

 

No. 27, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Act 2004, and for related purposes

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendment of the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Act 2004

 

 

National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Amendment (Application) Act 2005

No. 27, 2005

 

 

 

An Act to amend the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Act 2004, and for related purposes

[Assented to 21 March 2005]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

  This Act may be cited as the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Amendment (Application) Act 2005.

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.


 

1  Section 6

Repeal the section, substitute:

 (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act applies to a federal criminal proceeding, whether begun before, on or after the day on which this section commences, if the prosecutor gives notice in writing to the defendant and the court that this Act applies to the proceeding.

 (2) If the prosecutor gives the notice after the proceeding begins, this Act only applies to the parts of the proceeding that take place after the notice is given.

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 9 February 2005

Senate on 7 March 2005]

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