Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION ACT 1979 No. 113 of 1979 - SECT 40

40. (1) Where any prescribed administrative action in respect of a person by a
State or an authority of a State would affect security in connection with
matters within the functions and responsibilities of a Commonwealth agency, it
is within the functions of the Organization to furnish a security assessment
in respect of that person to the Commonwealth agency, for the purpose of its
transmission to the State or the authority of a State for use in considering
that prescribed administrative action.

(2) The Organization shall not-

   (a)  communicate directly to a State or an authority of a State, whether in
        the form of an assessment or otherwise, any information,
        recommendation, opinion or advice concerning a person which the
        Organization knows is intended or likely to be used by the State or an
        authority of the State in considering prescribed administrative action
        in relation to that person; or

   (b)  furnish to a Commonwealth agency otherwise than in the form of an
        assessment any information, recommendation, opinion or advice
        concerning a person if the Organization knows that the
        Commonwealth agency intends to communicate it to a State or an
        authority of a State for use in considering precribed administrative
        action in relation to that person.