ASIO Legislation Amendment Act 2003 (Cth)

ASIO Legislation Amendment Act 2003

No. 143, 2003

An Act to amend the law relating to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

Part 1—Time for questioning through interpreter

Part 2—Preventing unauthorised overseas travel by person specified in warrant

Part 3—Direction by prescribed authority to detain

Part 4—Secrecy relating to warrants and questioning

Schedule 2—Intelligence Services Act 2001

ASIO Legislation Amendment Act 2003

No. 143, 2003

An Act to amend the law relating to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 December 2003]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the ASIO Legislation Amendment Act 2003.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

Part 1—Time for questioning through interpreter

1 At the end of section 34HB Add:

Extra time for questioning with interpreter present

(8) Subsections (9), (10), (11) and (12) apply if, because of section 34H or 34HAA, an interpreter is present at any time while a person is questioned under a warrant issued under section 34D.

(9) Anyone exercising authority under the warrant must not question the person under the warrant if the person has been questioned under the warrant for a total of 24, 32 or 40 hours, unless the prescribed authority before whom the person was being questioned just before the duration of that questioning reached that total permits the questioning to continue beyond that total for the purposes of this subsection.