Preliminary Pages

Membership of the Committee

 

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

Committee Secretariat

 

Secretary	Ms Margaret Swieringa (till 1 June 2007) Mr Stephen Boyd (from 4 June 2007)
Inquiry Secretary	Dr Cathryn Ollif
Administrative 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

(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 Intelligence and Security may:

(a)   review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and

(b)   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 2005 (No 1)

Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No.3

Registered: 24 May 2007 (FRLI: F2007L01465)

 

Recommendation

2     The relisting of Hizballah’s ESO

Recommendation 1

The Committee does not recommend the disallowance of the regulation made to proscribe Hizballah’s External Security Organisation.