Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

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Review of the re-listing of Al-Qa’ida, Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qa’ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb

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October 2008

Canberra

Membership of the Committee
Terms of reference
List of recommendations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Listings
Appendix A – List of Submissions
Appendix B – Witnesses appearing at private hearing

Membership of the Committee

Chair	The Hon Arch Bevis MP
Deputy Chair	The Hon Philip Ruddock MP
Members	Mr Daryl Melham MP	Senator Michael Forshaw
	Mr Mark Dreyfus QC MP	Senator Fiona Nash
	The Hon Andrew Robb AO MP	Senator Gavin Marshall
	(from 27 August 2008)	Senator Julian McGauran

Committee Secretariat

Secretary	Dr Margot Kerley
Inquiry Secretary	Mr Robert Little
Research Officer	Ms Philippa Davies
Office Manager	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

Al-Qa’ida
Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2008 (No 1)
Select Legislative Instrument No 160 of 2008
Registered: 8 August 2008 (FRLI: F2008L02843)

Jemaah Islamiyah
Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2008 (No 2)
Select Legislative Instrument No 161 of 2008
Registered: 8 August 2008 (FRLI: F2008L02845)

Al-Qa’ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2008 (No 3)
Select Legislative Instrument No 162 of 2008
Registered: 8 August 2008 (FRLI: F2008L02844)