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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 36A

Part not to apply to security vetting and security clearance related activities

  (1)   This Part (other than section   81) does not apply in relation to the exercise of a power or the performance of a function under Part   IVA.

  (2)   To avoid doubt:

  (a)   a communication made, including a security clearance suitability assessment furnished, by the Organisation in connection with the performance of its function under paragraph   17(1)(cb) is not a security assessment; and

  (b)   any decision made or not made, or action taken or not taken, by a Commonwealth agency, a State or an authority of a State, on the basis of a communication made by the Organisation in connection with the performance of its function under paragraph   17(1)(cb) is not prescribed administrative action within the meaning of paragraph   (a) of the definition of prescribed administrative action in subsection   35(1).


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