Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00273:section:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00273
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 8854–11877

4  Definitions
 (1) In this Act:
agency with an intelligence role or function means:
 (a) AUSTRAC (within the meaning of the Anti‑Money Laundering and Counter‑Terrorism Financing Act 2006); or
 (b) the Australian Federal Police; or
 (c) the Department of Home Affairs; or
 (d) the Defence Department (other than AGO or DIO);
to the extent that the agency:
 (e) collects, correlates, analyses, produces or disseminates intelligence that relates, or may relate, to national intelligence priorities, requirements or capabilities; or
 (f) either:
 (i) maintains a capability that materially assists in doing any of the things mentioned in paragraph (e); or
 (ii) is developing a capability that is designed to materially assist in doing any of the things mentioned in paragraph (e).
Note: The Defence Department does not include the Australian Defence Force.
AGO means that part of the Defence Department known as the Australian Geospatial‑Intelligence Organisation.
ASD means the Australian Signals Directorate.
ASIO means the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
ASIS means the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
AUSTRAC means the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre.
Commonwealth authority includes:
 (a) an Agency within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999; and
 (b) a Department within the meaning of the Parliamentary Service Act 1999; and
 (c) the Defence Force; and
 (d) a body, whether incorporated or not, established, or continued in existence, for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth; and
 (e) a body corporate in which the Commonwealth or a body referred to in paragraph (d) has a controlling interest.
Defence Department means the Department administered by the Defence Minister.
Defence Minister means the Minister responsible for administering the Defence Act 1903.
Department of Home Affairs means the Department administered by the Home Affairs Minister.
DIO means that part of the Defence Department known as the Defence Intelligence Organisation.
Director‑General means the Director‑General of National Intelligence.
general rules means the rules made under section 55.
head, in relation to an intelligence agency or an agency with an intelligence role or function, means the following persons:
 (a) in relation to the ASD—the Director‑General of ASD;
 (b) in relation to the ASIO—the Director‑General of Security;
 (c) in relation to the ASIS—the Director‑General of the ASIS;
 (d) in relation to AUSTRAC—the Chief Executive Officer of AUSTRAC;
 (e) in relation to the agency known as the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission—the Chief Executive Officer of that agency;
 (f) in relation to the Australian Federal Police—the Commissioner of Police;
 (g) in relation to the part of the Defence Department known as the Australian Geospatial‑Intelligence Organisation—the Director of that part of the Department;
 (h) in relation to the part of the Defence Department known as the Defence Intelligence Organisation—the Director of that part of the