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

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to tracking devices

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

17   After section 34A (first occurring)

Insert:

34AAB Director-General to report to Attorney-General - internal authorisations to use tracking devices

(1) If an internal authorisation is given, the Director-General must:

(a) give the Attorney-General a written report that meets the requirements of subsection (2); and

(b) do so within 3 months of the day on which the internal authorisation ceases to be in force.

(2) The report must state whether the authorisation was executed, and, if so:

(a) give details of the extent to which any thing done in accordance with the authorisation has assisted the Organisation in carrying out its functions; and

(b) give details of the matter (the security matter ) that is important in relation to security in respect of which the authorisation is given; and

(c) state the name, if known, of any person whose location was determined by the use of a tracking device in accordance with the authorisation; and

(d) state the period during which a tracking device was used in accordance with the authorisation; and

(e) give details of:

(i) any object in or on which a tracking device was installed in accordance with the authorisation; and

(ii) the premises where the object was located when the device was installed; and

(f) give details of the compliance with the restrictions or conditions (if any) to which the authorisation was subject; and

(g) state whether the authorisation was varied, and, if so:

(i) the number of variations; and

(ii) the reasons for each variation.