Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Act 2021 (78 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   General amendments

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

4   After subsection 94(2BB)

Insert:

(2BBA) A report under subsection (1) must also include a statement of:

(a) the relevant statistics about applications made by the Organisationunder clause 83 of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 during the period; and

(b) the relevant statistics about applications made by the Organisationunder clause 92 of that Schedule during the period; and

(c) the relevant statistics about applications made by the Organisationunder clause 101 of that Schedule during the period; and

(d) the number of international production orders issued under clause 89 of that Schedule that were given by the Australian Designated Authority to prescribed communications providers during the period; and

(e) the number of international production orders issued under clause 98 of that Schedule that were given by the Australian Designated Authority to prescribed communications providers during the period; and

(f) the number of international production orders issued under clause 107 of that Schedule that were given by the Australian Designated Authority to prescribed communications providers during the period; and

(g) for each designated international agreement - the number of international production orders issued under Part 4 of that Schedule that:

(i) were given by the Australian Designated Authority to prescribed communications providers during the period; and

(ii) invoked the designated international agreement; and

(h) if subparagraph 89(2)(e)(ii) or (f)(ii) of that Schedule applied to one or more international production orders issued under clause 89 of that Schedule during the period - the number of those orders; and

(i) the number of international production orders cancelled by the Australian Designated Authority under clause 112 of that Schedule during the period; and

(j) the number of international production orders revoked by the Director-General of Security under clause 116 of that Schedule during the period; and

(k) if one or more international production orders issued under Part 4 of that Schedule were cancelled by the Australian Designated Authority under clause 122 of that Schedule during the period - the number of those orders; and

(l) if there were one or more occasions during the period when protected information obtained in accordance with an international production order issued under Part 4 of that Schedule was communicated by an ASIO official to a person other than an ASIO official - the number of those occasions; and

(m) if one or more objections were received by the Australian Designated Authority under clause 121 of that Schedule during the period in relation to international production orders issued under Part 4 of that Schedule:

(i) the number of international production orders to which those objections relate; and

(ii) the number of each type of those orders; and

(iii) for each designated international agreement - the number of those orders that invoked the designated international agreement.

(2BBB) An expression used in subsection (2BBA) has same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.


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