Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Act 2024 (93 of 2024)

Schedule 4   Communications Access Coordinator and Communications Security Coordinator

Part 1   Amendments

Telecommunications Act 1997

3   After section 7

Insert:

7A Communications Security Coordinator

(1) In this Act:

Communications Security Coordinator means:

(a) the Home Affairs Secretary; or

(b) if a person or body is covered by an instrument made under subsection (2) - that person or body.

(2) The Home Affairs Minister may, by legislative instrument, specify one or more persons or bodies, or one or more classes of persons or bodies, for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of Communications Security Coordinator in subsection (1).

(3) The Home Affairs Minister must only specify a person or class of persons in an instrument made under subsection (2) if the person is an APS employee, or the class consists wholly of APS employees, in the Home Affairs Department.

Instrument must specify certain functions or powers

(4) An instrument made under subsection (2) must specify the functions or powers of a Communications Security Coordinator under this Act or any other Act that a person or body, or a class of persons or bodies, specified in the instrument may perform or exercise.

(5) A person or body, or a class of persons or bodies, specified in an instrument made under subsection (2) may only perform the functions or exercise the powers specified in that instrument in relation to that person or body, or class of persons or bodies.