Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Review of the listing of six terrorist organisations

March 2005
Canberra

© Commonwealth of Australia 2004
ISBN 0 642 78676 3 (electronic version)

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Contents

Membership of the Committee
Terms of reference
List of recommendations

Membership of the Committee

Committee Secretariat

Terms of reference

This inquiry and report is conducted under the following powers:

Criminal Code Amendment (Terrorist Organisations) Act 2004

102.1A Reviews by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD

Review of listing regulation

1. If a regulation made after the commencement of this section specifies an organisation for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in section 102.1, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD may:
   1. review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and
   2. report the Committee’s comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period.

And

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 2)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 3)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 4)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 5)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 6)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2004 (No 7)

Statutory Rules Nos. 283, 284 and 311-314

List of recommendations

2

Procedural concerns

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that a comprehensive information program, that takes account of relevant community groups, be conducted in relation to any listing of an organisation as a terrorist organisation

3

The Proposed Listings

Recommendation 2

The Committee does not recommend disallowance of the regulations on the six terrorist organisations:

• Al-Qa’ida;
• Jemaah Islamiyyah (JI);
• Abu Sayyaf ;
• The Armed Islamic Group (GIA);
• Jamiat ul-Ansar (JuA) (formally Harakat Ul-Mujahideen); and
• The Salafist Group.

Last reviewed 5 September 2005 by Committee Secretariat
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