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National AntiCorruption Commission (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 19 June 2023

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Mark Dreyfus KC

AttorneyGeneral

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Data Availability and Transparency Regulations 2022

Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016

InspectorGeneral of the Australian Defence Force Regulation 2016

Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017

Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Regulations 2019

Schedule 2—Repeals

Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Regulations 2017

1  Name

  This instrument is the National AntiCorruption Commission (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2023.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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 instrument

1 July 2023.

1 July 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the following:

 (a) the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918;

 (b) the Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022;

 (c) the Defence Act 1903;

 (d) the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006;

 (e) the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017;

 (f) the Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Act 1971.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Data Availability and Transparency Regulations 2022

1  Section 5 (table item dealing with the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006, column headed “Act or legislative instrument”)

After “Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006”, insert “(as that Act continues to apply under the National AntiCorruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022)”.

2  Section 5 (after table item dealing with the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006)

Insert:

 

National AntiCorruption Commission Act 2022

section 98

section 101

section 228

section 233

section 234

 

Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016

3  Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 3)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

3

National AntiCorruption Commission

(a) identifying or locating offenders, suspects or witnesses in relation to:

(i) the investigation of, or reporting on, a corruption issue within the meaning of the National AntiCorruption Commission Act 2022 (the NACC Act); or

(ii) a preliminary investigation under section 42 of the NACC Act; or

(b) collecting, correlating, analysing or disseminating information or intelligence in relation to corruption issues within the meaning of the NACC Act; or

(c) security vetting of employees or potential employees; or

(d) identifying or locating offenders, suspects or witnesses in relation to an investigation that is being conducted, or reported on, in accordance with item 2 of Schedule 2 to the National AntiCorruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 after the transition time (within the meaning of that Schedule); or

(e) identifying or locating offenders, suspects or witnesses in relation to an investigation that is being reported on in accordance with item 38 of Schedule 2 to the National AntiCorruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022 after the transition time (within the meaning of that Schedule)

 

InspectorGeneral of the Australian Defence Force Regulation 2016

4  Paragraph 28L(1)(d)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (d) the National AntiCorruption Commission;

Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017

5  At the end of Subdivision A of Division 2 of Part 5

Add:

82A  Assistance relating to National AntiCorruption Commission matters

  Despite section 82, assistance is not payable to an applicant under this Division in relation to proceedings or a subpoena that relate to an eligible matter within the meaning of the National AntiCorruption Commission Regulations 2023.

Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Regulations 2019

6  Section 5 (definition of Integrity Commissioner)

Repeal the definition.

7  Paragraph 6(b)

Omit “Integrity Commissioner”, substitute “National AntiCorruption Commissioner”.

8  Subsection 11(3)

Omit “Integrity Commissioner” (wherever occurring), substitute “National AntiCorruption Commissioner”.

Schedule 2Repeals

 

Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Regulations 2017

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.