Telecommunications (Communications Security Coordinator) Specification 2024

I, Tony Burke, the Home Affairs Minister (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997), make this instrument.

Dated  30 October  2024

Tony Burke

Home Affairs Minister

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Specification

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications (Communications Security Coordinator) Specification 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the later of:

 (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and

 (b) the day Schedule 4 of the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Act 2024 commences.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 7A(2) of the Act.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 7 of the Act, including the following:

(a) Communications Security Coordinator;

(b) Home Affairs Department; and

(c) Home Affairs Minister.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

APS employee has the meaning given by the Public Service Act 1999.

Cyber and Infrastructure Security Group means the Group of the same name in the Home Affairs Department.

SES employee has the meaning given by the Public Service Act 1999.

5  Specification

 (1) For the definition of Communications Security Coordinator in paragraph 7A(1)(b) of the Act, APS employees in the Home Affairs Department holding, occupying or performing the duties of a SES employee in the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Group are specified.

  (2) For subsection 7A(4) of the Act, all of the functions and powers of a Communications Security Coordinator under a provision of the Act are specified to be functions and powers that a person mentioned in subsection (1) may perform or exercise.