2010-2011-2012-2013 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Affairs Portfolio Miscellaneous 

Measures Bill 2013 

 

No.      , 2013 

 

(Foreign Affairs) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Intelligence Services 

Act 2001 and the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, 

and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Intelligence Services Act 2001

 

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Work Health and Safety Act 2011

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Intelligence Services 

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Act 2001 and the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, 

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and for related purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Foreign Affairs Portfolio 

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Miscellaneous Measures Act 2013. 

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2  Commencement 

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  This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal 

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Assent. 

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3  Schedule(s) 

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

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Amendments 

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Intelligence Services Act 2001 

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1  Section 3 

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Insert: 

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APS Agency means an Agency within the meaning of the Public 

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Service Act 1999. 

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2  After section 36 

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Insert: 

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36A  Voluntary moves to APS 

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(1)  Section 26 of the Public Service Act 1999 applies in relation to an 

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employee of ASIS as if the employee were an APS employee and 

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ASIS were an APS Agency. 

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(2)  An employee of ASIS who moves to an APS Agency under that 

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section is entitled to have his or her employment, as an employee 

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of ASIS, treated as if it were: 

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(a)  employment as an APS employee; and 

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(b)  at a corresponding classification, as agreed between the 

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Director-General and the Public Service Commissioner. 

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Work Health and Safety Act 2011 

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3  After subsection 12C(2) 

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Insert: 

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(2A)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the 

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Director-General of ASIS may, by instrument in writing, declare 

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that specified provisions of this Act do not apply, or apply subject 

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to modifications set out in the declaration, in relation to a person 

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carrying out work for the Director-General of ASIS. 

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4  Subsection 12C(3) 

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After "subsection (2)", insert "or (2A)". 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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5  At the end of section 12C 

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Add: 

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(5)  In administering the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and in 

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the exercise of the power under subsection (2A), the 

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Director-General of ASIS must take into account the need to 

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promote the objects of this Act to the greatest extent consistent 

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with the maintenance of national security. 

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6  Paragraph 273B(2)(a) 

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After "section 12C(2)", insert "or (2A)". 

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