Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00841:section:82e
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00841
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 82E
Character Range: 403198–404672

82E  Communications by Organisation to another Commonwealth security vetting agency
 (1) This section applies in relation to a communication by the Organisation to another security vetting agency that is an authority of the Commonwealth (a Commonwealth security vetting agency).
 (2) A Commonwealth security vetting agency must not make, refuse to make or refrain from making a security clearance decision in respect of a person on the basis of any communication in relation to the person made by the Organisation not amounting to a security clearance suitability assessment.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a Commonwealth security vetting agency from making a security clearance decision to temporarily:
 (a) suspend a security clearance, or revoke a suspension of a security clearance, held by a person; or
 (b) impose a condition, or vary a condition imposed, on a security clearance in respect of a person;
in the circumstances referred to in subsection (4).
 (4) The circumstances are that:
 (a) the Organisation makes a communication to the Commonwealth security vetting agency pending the furnishing of a security clearance suitability assessment in respect of the person; and
 (b) the Commonwealth security vetting agency is satisfied, on the basis of that communication, that the requirements of security make it necessary as a matter of urgency to make the security clearance decision pending the furnishing of the security clearance suitability assessment.