Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Freedom of Information Act 1982 3
Inspector‑General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 3
A Bill for an Act to make amendments relating to the enactment of the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 2020, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | At the same time as the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 2020 commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Freedom of Information Act 1982
1 Division 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 (after the table item dealing with Inspector‑General of Intelligence and Security)
Insert:
| National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention |
2 Division 1 of Part II of Schedule 2 (at the end of the table item dealing with the Attorney‑General’s Department)
Add:
; and (e) documents in respect of the performance or exercise of functions or powers of the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention under the following provisions of the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 2020:
(i) section 26 (inquiries);
(ii) section 28 (private hearings);
(iii) sections 30 (summons) and 32 (Commissioner may require information etc.);
(iv) sections 40 and 41 (disclosure of information to the Commissioner);
(v) section 42 (arrangements for obtaining and protecting intelligence information);
(vi) sections 56 (authorisation to disclose information (other than intelligence information)) and 57 (authorisation to disclose intelligence information).
Inspector‑General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
3 Section 34A (heading)
After “Royal Commissioners”, insert “or National Commissioner”.
4 Subsections 34A(1), (3), (4), (5) and (6)
After “Commission”, insert “or, subject to subsection (6A), the National Commissioner”.
5 After subsection 34A(6)
Insert:
(6A) This section does not apply in relation to the National Commissioner unless the regulations declare that this section applies in relation to the National Commissioner.
6 Subsection 34A(7)
Insert:
National Commissioner means:
(a) the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention; or
(b) a member of the staff assisting the Commissioner as mentioned in section 14 of the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 2020.