Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144:clause:3_8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 8
Character Range: 11137–12434

8  Security matters
        1.   For MOP(S) Act employees (excluding casual electorate employees) of an office-holder who is a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary, employment is conditional on the employee obtaining and maintaining a security clearance at Negative Vetting Level 2 or at a level approved  in accordance with section 8(2).
        2.   In exceptional circumstances the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs may, on the recommendation of the Minister's Chief of Staff and Portfolio Department, approve a variation of the level of security clearance required under section 8(1) of this instrument where:
 (a) In the case of an electorate officer who works to a Minister who is a member of the National Security Committee of Cabinet, the electorate officer has no access to security classified information above Protected; or
 (b) In the case of an electorate officer who works to a Minister who is not a member of the National Security Committee of Cabinet, the electorate officer has no access to security classified information above Secret.
Note:  The Ministerial and Parliamentary Services Division of the Department of Finance provides assistance to parliamentarians and office-holders in relation to exemptions to the requirement to hold a particular security clearance.