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

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to compulsory questioning powers

Part 2   Application and saving provisions

15   Saving of appointment of prescribed authorities

(1) This item applies to a person who was, immediately before the commencement day, a prescribed authority under section 34B of the old law.

(2) The person is taken, after the commencement day, to be a prescribed authority under section 34AD of the new law.

(3) If:

(a) the person is a member of a court; and

(b) the person has a function, power or duty as a prescribed authority that is neither judicial nor incidental to a judicial function or power;

the person has the function, power or duty in a personal capacity and not as a court or a member of a court.


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