Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956 (Cth)
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT CHAP 1920 #DATE 19:12:1973)
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT CHAP 1920 #DATE 19:12:1973)
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - TABLE OF
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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Definitions
3. Extension of Act to Territories
4. Continuance of Australian Security Intelligence Organization
5. Functions of the Organization
6. Director-General of Security
7. Employment of officers and employees
8. Designation of offices, &c.
9. Conditions of employment
10. Special provisions relating to existing employees
11. Officers of Public Service to retain rights
12. Employment of Director-General and officers not to be terminable at
will
13. Application of Superannuation Act
14. (Repealed)
15. Officers, &c., to be Commonwealth officers for purposes of Crimes
Act
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 1.
Short title.SECT
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973
An Act relating to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956-1973.*
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 2.
Definitions.SECT
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
2. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
''employee'' or ''employee of the Organization'' means a person employed as a temporary or casual employee of the Organization under section seven of this Act, and includes a person to whom sub-section (2) of section ten of this Act applies;
''officer'' or ''officer of the Organization'' means a person employed as an officer of the Organization under section seven of this Act, and includes a person to whom sub-section (1) of section ten of this Act applies;
''security'' means the protection of the Commonwealth and the Territories from acts of espionage, sabotage or subversion, whether directed from, or intended to be committed, within the Commonwealth or not;
''the Director-General'' means the Director-General of Security holding office under this Act;
''the Organization'' means the Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 3.
Extension of Act to Territories.SECT
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
3. This Act extends to all the Territories.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 4.
Continuance of Australian Security Intelligence Organization.SECT
4. (1) The Australian Security Intelligence Organization, being the Organization established in pursuance of a directive given by the Prime Minister on the sixteenth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, is, subject to this Act, continued in existence.
(2) The Organization shall be under the control of the Director-General.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 5.
Functions of the Organization.SECT
5. (1) The functions of the Organization are-
(a) to obtain, correlate and evaluate intelligence relevant to security and, at the discretion of the Director-General, to communicate any such intelligence to such persons, and in such manner, as the Director-General considers to be in the interests of security;
(b) to advise Ministers, where the Director-General is satisfied that it is necessary or desirable to do so, in respect of matters relevant to security, in so far as those matters relate to Departments of State administered by them or to authorities of the Commonwealth established by or under Acts administered by them; and
(c) to co-operate with such Departments of State and authorities of the Commonwealth and, so far as is practicable, with such Departments and authorities of the States and of other countries as are capable of assisting the Organization in the performance of its functions.(2) It is not a function of the Organization to carry out or enforce measures for security within a Department of State or authority of the Commonwealth.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 6.
Director-General of Security.SECT
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
6.* (1) There shall be a Director-General of Security, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General.
(2) The Director-General shall hold office on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General determines.
Sub-section (3) omitted by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 7.
Employment of officers and employees.SECT
7. (1) Subject to this Act, the Director-General may, on behalf of the Commonwealth-
(a) employ, under agreements in writing, such officers of the Organization as he thinks necessary for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) employ such temporary employees and casual employees of the Organization as he thinks necessary for those purposes.
(2) The Director-General shall not employ a person as an officer except-
(a) in an office the designation and salary or salary range of which have been determined, or are deemed to have been determined, under sub-section (1) of the next succeeding section; and
(b) upon the terms and conditions of employment that are in force under section nine of this Act in relation to the employment of persons as officers at the date on which that person is so employed.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 8.
Designation of offices, &c.SECT
8. (1) The designations of offices in the Organization, other than the office of Director-General, and the salaries or salary ranges applicable to those offices, shall be such as are determined from time to time by the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the Solicitor-General and the Director-General.
(2) The designations of offices in the Organization immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, and the salaries or salary ranges applicable to those offices immediately before that date, shall be deemed to have been determined under the last preceding sub-section.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 9.
Conditions of employment.SECT
9. Officers and employees of the Organization are not subject to the Public Service Act 1922-1955 but, subject to this Act, the terms and conditions upon which the Director-General shall employ persons as officers, and the terms and conditions of employment applicable to temporary and casual employees, shall be such as are determined from time to time by the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the Solicitor-General and the Director-General.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 10.
Special provisions relating to existing employees.SECT
10. (1) A person who, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, was employed in the Organization under an agreement in writing with the Commonwealth providing for his services to continue for a period exceeding one year shall, unless and until he agrees to accept other terms and conditions, continue to be employed upon the terms and conditions specified in that agreement.
(2) A person, not being a person to whom the last preceding sub-section applies, who was, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, employed in the Organization shall, until other terms and conditions applicable to him are determined under the last preceding section, continue to be employed upon the terms and conditions applicable to him immediately before that date.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 11.
Officers of Public Service to retain rights.SECT
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
11. Where a person appointed as Director-General under section six of this Act or a person employed as an officer under section seven of this Act was, immediately before his appointment or employment, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth, or a person referred to in sub-section (1) of the last preceding section was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth-
(a) he retains his existing and accruing rights; and
(b) his service under this Act, or after the commencement of this Act, as the case requires, shall, for the purpose of determining those rights, be taken into account as if it were service in the Public Service of the Commonwealth.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 12.
Employment of Director-General and officers not to be terminable at will.SECT
12. The appointment of the Director-General or the employment of an officer of the Organization shall not be terminated except in accordance with a term or condition of his appointment or employment.
AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 13.
Application of Superannuation Act.SECT
13. (1) A person employed in the Organization immediately before the date of commencement of this Act (including the person holding office as Director-General of Security immediately before that date) who was, immediately before that date, contributing to the Superannuation Fund or the Provident Account established by the Superannuation Act 1922-1956 shall be deemed to be an employee within the meaning of section four of that Act and, at all times during the period in respect of which he has, while employed in the Organization, been contributing to that Fund or to that Account-
(a) to have been such an employee; and
(b) to have lawfully been contributing to that Fund or to that Account.
(2) Where-
(a) a person, being an employee of the Organization, is employed on terms that require him to give the whole of his time to the duties of his employment;
(b) that person has been employed in the Organization on such terms for a continuous period (being a period after, or partly before and partly after, the commencement of this Act) of not less than three years; and
(c) the Director-General certifies that that person's employment is likely to be continued for a period of at least seven years,
that person shall be deemed to be an employee within the meaning of section four of the Superannuation Act 1922-1956 from and including the date on which the Director-General so certifies.
(3) For the purposes of sub-section (1) of section twelve of the Superannuation Act 1922-1956, the prescribed date, in relation to a person to whom the last preceding sub-section applies, shall be deemed to be the date referred to in the last preceding sub-section or, if that date is not a pay-day, the next succeeding pay-day after that date.
Section 14 repealed by No. 216, 1973, s.3.
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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 15.
Officers, &c., to be Commonwealth officers for purposes of Crimes Act.SECT
15. The Director-General and officers and employees of the organization shall be deemed to be Commonwealth officers for the purposes of the Crimes Act 1914-1955.
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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1956-1973 - NOTES
NOTES
1. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956-1973 comprises the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956 as amended by the other Act specified in the following table:
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Number Date of Date of
Act and year Assent commencement
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Australian Security
Intelligence Organization
Act 1956 No. 113, 1956 15 Nov 1956 13 Dec 1956
Statute Law Revision Act
1973 No. 216, 1973 19 Dec 1973 31 Dec 1973
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The Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act ceased, on and from 1 December 1973, to have effect, of its own force, as part of the law of Papua New Guinea by virtue of regulation 4 of the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Regulations made under the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Act 1973.
2.-S. 6-By section 15 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Remuneration and Allowances Acts 1973, the rate per annum of the salary applicable to the office of Director-General of Security is $25,000 with an annual allowance of $1,200.
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