Preliminary Pages

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 Gavin Marshall
	Mrs Kay Hull MP	Senator Julian McGauran Senator the Hon Helen Coonan

 

Committee Secretariat

 

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

Hizballah’s External Security Organisation (ESO)

Criminal Code Amendment Regulations 2009 (No 7)

Registered: 15 May 2009 (FRLI: F2009L01297)

 

List of recommendations

Recommendation 1

The Committee does not recommend the disallowance of the regulations, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list the organisation:

Hizballah External Security Organisation

             as a terrorist organisation.