2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Independent National Security 

Legislation Monitor Repeal Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Prime Minister) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to repeal the Independent National 

Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010, 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--Independent National Security Legislation 

Monitor Act 2010

 

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Part 1--Repeal of Act

 

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Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

 

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Part 2--Saving and transitional provisions

 

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A Bill for an Act to repeal the Independent National 

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Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010, and for 

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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 Independent National Security 

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Legislation Monitor Repeal Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

The later of: 

(a) 21 April 2014; and 

(b) the day after this Act receives the Royal 

Assent. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

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this Act. 

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(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

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may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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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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Schedule 1

--Independent National Security 

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Legislation Monitor Act 2010 

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Part 1

--Repeal of Act 

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Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010 

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1  The whole of the Act 

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Repeal the Act. 

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Schedule 1  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010 

Part 2  Saving and transitional provisions 

 

 

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--Saving and transitional provisions 

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2  Saving

--protection from criminal and civil liability 

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Despite the repeal of the Independent National Security Legislation 

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Monitor Act 2010 by this Schedule, section 26 of that Act continues to 

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apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to a 

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person who was served with a notice before that commencement. 

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3  Transfer of records and documents to the Department 

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(1) 

This item applies to any records or documents that were in the 

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possession of the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor 

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immediately before the commencement of this item. 

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(2) 

The records and documents are to be transferred to the Department after 

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the commencement of this item. 

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Note: 

The records and documents are Commonwealth records for the purposes of the Archives 

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Act 1983. 

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4  Transitional

--reports 

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(1) 

Despite the repeal of the Independent National Security Legislation 

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Monitor Act 2010 (the Act) by this Schedule, section 29 of the Act 

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continues to apply in relation to the financial year starting on 1 July 

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2013 and is taken to have been satisfied in relation to that financial year 

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if subitems (2) and (3) are satisfied. 

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(2) 

This subitem is satisfied if the Independent National Security 

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Legislation Monitor (the Monitor) has given to the Prime Minister after 

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1 January 2014 and before the commencement of this item: 

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(a)  a report (the final annual report): 

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(i)  relating to the performance of the Monitor's functions 

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as set out in paragraphs 6(1)(a) and (b) of the Act; and 

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(ii)  containing such details relating to the performance of 

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the Monitor's function as set out in paragraph 6(1)(c) of 

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the Act as the Monitor considers appropriate; and 

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(b)  a version of the report (a declassified final annual report) 

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that does not contain information of the kind referred to in 

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subsection 29(3) of the Act, if the Monitor considers that the 

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final annual report contains information of that kind. 

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(3) 

This subitem is satisfied if: 

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(a)  the final annual report; or 

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(b)  if the final annual report contains information of the kind 

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referred to in subsection 29(3) of the Act--the declassified 

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final annual report; 

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is, or was, presented to each House of Parliament within 15 sittings days 

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of that House after the day on which it was received. 

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5  Saving

--immunity from legal action 

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Despite the repeal of the Independent National Security Legislation 

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Monitor Act 2010 by this Schedule, section 31 of that Act continues to 

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apply after the commencement of this item in relation to anything done, 

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or omitted to be done, on or before that commencement by a person 

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who is, or has been, the Independent National Security Legislation 

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Monitor. 

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