Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34AB

             (1)  The Minister may, by writing, appoint as an issuing authority a person who is:

                     (a)  a Federal Magistrate; or

                     (b)  a Judge.

             (2)  The Minister must not appoint a person unless:

                     (a)  the person has, by writing, consented to being appointed; and

                     (b)  the consent is in force.

             (3)  The regulations may declare that persons in a specified class are issuing authorities.

             (4)  The regulations may specify a class of persons partly by reference to the facts that the persons have consented to being issuing authorities and their consents are in force.