House debates

Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Bills

Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018, Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Consideration in Detail

12:29 pm

Photo of Alex HawkeAlex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018 and the Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (4), as circulated, together.

Leave granted.

I move government amendments (1) to (4), as circulated, together:

(1) Clause 43, page 34 (line 18) to page 35 (line 32), omit the clause.

(2) Clause 53, page 43 (line 16), after "Security", insert ", the Privacy Commissioner".

(3) Clause 53, page 43 (after line 18), after subclause (4), insert:

  (4A) The privacy rules must be published on ONI's website as soon as practicable after the rules are made, except to the extent that the rules contain information that has a protective security classification.

(4) Clause 54, page 45 (before line 11), before paragraph (2)(a), insert:

  (aa) the power to approve an authority of another country under subsection 13(2);

Question agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.