Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1979 No. 113 of 1979 - SECT 39

39. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), a Commonwealth agency shall not take,
refuse to take or refrain from taking prescribed administrative action on the
basis of any communication in relation to a person made by the Organization
not amounting to a security assessment or on the basis of an adverse or
qualified security assessment made by the Organization before the commencement
of this Act.

(2) Sub-section (1) does not prevent a Commonwealth agency from taking action
of a temporary nature to prevent access by a person to any information or
place access to which is controlled or limited on security grounds where, on
the basis of a preliminary communication by the Organization, the
Commonwealth agency is satisfied that the requirements of security make it
necessary to take that action as a matter of urgency pending the furnishing of
an assessment by the Organization.