Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Review of the re-listing of Al-Qa’ida and Jemaah Islamiyah as terrorist organisations

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October 2006

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Membership of the Committee
Terms of reference
List of abbreviations
List of recommendations

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The listings

Membership of the Committee

Chair	The Hon David Jull MP
Deputy Chair	Mr Anthony Byrne MP
Members	The Hon Duncan Kerr SC MP	Senator Alan Ferguson
	Mr Stewart McArthur MP	Senator the Hon Robert Ray
	Mr Steven Ciobo MP	Senator the Hon John Faulkner
		Senator Fiona Nash

Committee Secretariat

Secretary	Ms Margaret Swieringa
Administration Officer	Mrs Donna Quintus-Bosz

Terms of reference

This inquiry and report is conducted under the following powers:

Criminal Code Act 1995

Section 102.1A Reviews by Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Review of listing regulation

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 Intelligence and Security may:

review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and
report the Committee’s comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period

And

Relisting of Al Qa’ida

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2006 (No 2)

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 220 [FRIL Reference No: F2006L02639]

Dated 24 August 2006

Relisting of Jemaah Islamiyah

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 3)

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 221 [FRIL Reference No: F2006L02640]

List of abbreviations

AQ	Al-Qa’ida
ASG	Abu Sayyaf Group
ASIO	Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
ASPI	Australian Strategic Policy Institute
DFAT	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
DI	Darul Islam ( Indonesia)
FRLI	Federal Register of Legislative Instruments
ICG	International Crisis Group
IEDs	Improvised Explosive Devices
JI	Jemaah Islamiyah
KOMPAK	Komite Aksi Penanggulangan Akibat Krisis (translated as the Crisis management/prevention Committee ) Mujahideen KOMPAK is a Jemaah Islamiyah splinter organisation
MILF	Moro Islamic Liberation Front
MMI	Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia
PIJ	Palestinian Islamic Jihad
UN	United Nations

List of recommendations

1 Introduction

Recommendation 1

The Committee renews its request that the Attorney-General and ASIO incorporate the criteria ASIO has provided for determining which organisations should be listed in future statements of reason.

2 The listings

Recommendation 2

The Committee does not recommend the disallowance of the regulations.