Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1979 No. 113 of 1979 - SECT 37

Division 2-Furnishing of Security Assessments
37. (1) The functions of the Organization referred to in paragraph 17 (1) (c)
include the furnishing to Commonwealth agencies of security assessments
relevant to their functions and responsibilities.

(2) An adverse or qualified security assessment shall be accompanied by a
statement of the grounds for the assessment, and that statement-

   (a)  shall contain all information that has been relied on by the
        Organization in making the assessment, other than information the
        inclusion of which would, in the opinion of the Director-General, be
        contrary to the requirements of security; and

   (b)  shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to be part of the
        assessment.

(3) The regulations may prescribe matters that are to be taken into account,
the manner in which those matters are to be taken into account, and matters
that are not to be taken into account, in the making of assessments, or of
assessments of a particular class, and any such regulations are binding on the
Organization and on the Tribunal.

(4) Subject to any regulations made in accordance with sub-section (3), the
Director-General shall, in consultation with the Minister, determine matters
of a kind referred to in sub-section (3), but nothing in this sub-section
affects the powers of the Tribunal.

(5) No proceedings, other than an application under Division 4, shall be
brought in any court or tribunal in respect of the making of an assessment or
anything done in respect of an assessment in accordance with this Act.