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Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Assistance and Access Amendments Review) Act 2019

No. 124, 2019

An Act to amend the Intelligence Services Act 2001 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, and for related purposes

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Assistance and Access Amendments Review) Act 2019

No. 124, 2019

An Act to amend the Intelligence Services Act 2001 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, and for related purposes

[Assented to 12 December 2019]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act is the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Assistance and Access Amendments Review) Act 2019.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	13 December 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Intelligence Services Act 2001

1 After paragraph 29(1)(bc)

Insert:

(bca) to review, by 30 September 2020, the operation of the amendments made by the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 and to give a written report of the review to the Minister administering the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979; and

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

2 Section 187N (heading)

Omit “and the amendments made by the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018”.

3 Subsection 187N(1)

Omit “and the amendments made by the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018”.

4 Transitional—review

A review of the operation of the amendments made by the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 that was started under section 187N of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, as in force before the commencement of this item, must be continued after this item commences and concluded in accordance with paragraph 29(1)(bca) of the Intelligence Services Act 2001 as inserted by this Schedule.