Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 and Intelligence Services Act 2001

• expand the jurisdictions of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to include the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs
• provide that the PJCIS may review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation, and all such expiring legislation
• enable the PJCIS to request the IGIS to conduct an inquiry into certain operational activities of the agencies within the IGIS’s jurisdiction
• clarify the legislation which enables the PJCIS to request a briefing from the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM)
• clarify the IGIS’s complaints jurisdiction
• make technical amendments

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 and Office of National Intelligence Act 2018

• require the IGIS and the Office of National Intelligence to provide annual briefings to the PJCIS

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010

• require the IGIS to provide annual briefings to the committee

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

• amend the review and access of ACIC criminal intelligence assessment records

Criminal Code Act 1995

• include an exemption from civil and criminal liability for defence officials and others for certain computer-related conduct

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

• ensure that the INSLM is able to review counter-terrorism or national security legislation
• make minor amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to 15 Acts