Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:15k:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 15K (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 656002–658949

an authority.
conduct includes any act or omission.
corresponding assumed identity law means:
 (a) a law of a State or Territory; or
 (b) a provision or provisions of a law of a State or Territory;
prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
corresponding authority means:
 (a) an authority under a corresponding assumed identity law to acquire or use an assumed identity; or
 (b) an authority under a corresponding assumed identity law to request the production of evidence of an assumed identity from a Commonwealth government issuing agency.
doing a thing, includes failing to do the thing.
evidence of identity, means a document or other thing (such as a driver's licence, birth certificate, credit card or identity card) that evidences or indicates, or can be used to evidence or indicate, a person's identity or any aspect of a person's identity.
foreign officer means an officer, however described, of an agency that has responsibility for:
 (a) law enforcement in a foreign country; or
 (b) intelligence gathering for a foreign country; or
 (c) security of a foreign country.
intelligence agency means:
 (a) the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; or
 (b) the Australian Secret Intelligence Service; or
 (c) the Office of National Intelligence; or
 (d) the Australian Signals Directorate.
intelligence officer means:
 (a) for an intelligence agency other than the Office of National Intelligence—a person who is a staff member (within the meaning of the Intelligence Services Act 2001) of the agency; and
 (b) for the Office of National Intelligence—a staff member (within the meaning of the Office of National Intelligence Act 2018) of the Office of National Intelligence;
and includes a person who is seconded to an intelligence agency.
issuing agency means:
 (a) a Commonwealth government issuing agency; or
 (b) a non‑Commonwealth government issuing agency.
jurisdiction means the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth.
law enforcement agency means the following agencies:
 (a) the Australian Federal Police;
 (b) the Immigration and Border Protection Department;
 (c) the ACC;
 (d) the National Anti‑Corruption Commission;
 (e) the Australian Taxation Office;
 (f) any other Commonwealth agency specified in the regulations.
law enforcement officer means:
 (a) in relation to the Australian Federal Police—the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, a Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, an AFP employee or a special member of the Australian Federal Police (all within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979); and
 (b) in relation to the Immigration and Border Protection Department—an officer of Customs; and
 (c) in relation to the ACC—a member of the staff of the ACC; and
 (d) in relation to the National Anti‑Corruption Commission—a staff member of the NACC; and
 (e) in relation to the Australian Taxation Office—a person engaged under