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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 26Q

Register of internal authorisations

  (1)   The Director - General must establish and maintain a register of requests for internal authorisations.

  (2)   The register may be kept by electronic means.

  (3)   The register must include, for each request for an internal authorisation:

  (a)   the name of the person who made the request; and

  (b)   the matter that is important in relation to security in respect of which the authorisation was requested; and

  (c)   the day on which the authorisation was given or refused; and

  (d)   the name of the authorising officer who gave or refused to give the authorisation; and

  (e)   if the authorisation was given:

  (i)   the day on which the authorisation ceased to be in force; and

  (ii)   whether action under the authorisation was discontinued in accordance with section   26P, and, if so, the day on which the action was discontinued; and

  (f)   the location at which any record relating to the request (including the request) is kept by the Organisation.

Note:   For the purposes of paragraph   (f), the location may be a physical location or an electronic location.

  (4)   The register is not a legislative instrument.


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