Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the opposition for their support.

Question agreed to.

I will now move to the next block. I will be moving amendment (4) separately. I now move government amendment (2) on sheet PN285, which I understand is also being supported by the opposition:

(2)    Schedule 1, item 11, page 5 (lines 20 to 22), omit the definition of authorised information officer in section 531B, substitute:

authorised information officer means:

             (a)    the Secretary of the Department; or

             (b)    a Deputy Secretary of the Department; or

             (c)    an individual:

                   (i)    who is an SES employee in the Department; and

                  (ii)    whose duties relate to the National Broadband Network Task Force; or

             (d)    a person for whom an appointment as an authorised information officer is in force under section 531M.

Question agreed to.

by leave—I move the two outstanding amendments, being (9), which goes to schedule 1, item 11, and also (4), on sheet PN285, which I understand the opposition are opposing:

(4)    Schedule 1, item 11, page 7 (before line 32), before paragraph (a) of the definition of protected carrier information in section 531B, insert:

           (aa)    any information that was given by a carrier to an authorised information officer during the period:

                   (i)    beginning on 27 February 2008; and

                  (ii)    ending 12 months after the commencement of this Part;

                      where, after the information was given, an authorised information officer gave the carrier a written undertaking, on behalf of the Commonwealth, that:

                 (iii)    after the commencement of this Part, the information would be treated as protected carrier information for the purposes of this Part; and

                 (iv)    the information would not be disclosed by an authorised information officer before the commencement of this Part; or

(9)    Schedule 1, item 11, page 14 (after line 3), after subsection 531G(4), insert:

     (4A)    An entrusted public official is not required to give a carrier an opportunity to be heard in relation to a decision to use information under subsection (3A).