Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

For the benefit of the non-lawyers among us, I will just try to paraphrase that in plain English and then you can tell me whether or not I have got it correct. The delegation powers that exist in the ASIO Act at the moment allow delegations within the organisation of various powers on the signatory of the Director-General. And this new item 1, schedule 1 allows those powers to be delegated to persons outside of the ASIO organisation. Could you please let me know whether my apprehension is correct.