Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Act 2020 (134 of 2020)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to compulsory questioning powers

Part 1   Amendments

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

11   Subsection 94(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) The annual report prepared by the Director-General and given to the Minister under section 46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 for a period must include a statement of:

(a) the total number of requests made during the period under Division 3 of Part III to the Attorney-General for the issue of warrants under that Division (including the number of requests made orally); and

(b) the total number of warrants issued during the period under that Division (including the number of warrants issued orally); and

(c) the number of times persons were apprehended during the period under that Division; and

(d) the number of hours each person appeared before a prescribed authority for questioning under a warrant issued during the period under that Division and the total of all those hours for all those persons; and

(e) the number of times each prescribed authority had persons appear for questioning before the prescribed authority under warrants issued during the period under that Division.


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