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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 38N

Security notice from Home Affairs Minister

  (1)   The Home Affairs Minister may give the Minister a written notice requiring that this Part apply in relation to a specified person if:

  (a)   the Foreign Affairs Minister gives the Home Affairs Minister a notice under section   38P in relation to the person; or

  (b)   the person's visa is cancelled under section   116 or 128 of the Migration Act 1958 because of an assessment by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation that the person is directly or indirectly a risk to security (within the meaning of section   4 of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 ); or

  (c)   the person's visa is cancelled under section   134B of the Migration Act 1958 (emergency cancellation on security grounds) and the cancellation has not been revoked because of subsection   134C(3) of that Act; or

  (d)   the person's visa is cancelled under section   501 of the Migration Act 1958 and there is an assessment by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation that the person is directly or indirectly a risk to security (within the meaning of section   4 of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 ).

  (2)   Before giving a notice under this section, the Home Affairs Minister must have regard to the following:

  (a)   the extent (if any) that any social security payments of the person are being, or may be, used for a purpose that might prejudice the security of Australia or a foreign country, if the Home Affairs Minister is aware of that extent;

  (b)   the likely effect of the operation of section   38M on the person's dependants, if the Home Affairs Minister is aware of those dependants.

  (3)   The Secretary of the Department administered by the Home Affairs Minister must:

  (a)   seek the advice of the Human Services Secretary in relation to paragraph   (2)(b); and

  (b)   inform the Home Affairs Minister of that advice.

  (4)   Subsection   (2) does not limit the matters to which regard may be had.


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