Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00045:section:35aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00045
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 35AA
Character Range: 217467–218636

35AA  Simplified outline of this Part

         • This Part sets up a regime for the Commonwealth to respond to a serious incident that has had, is having, or is likely to have, one or more relevant impacts on one or more critical infrastructure assets.
         • The Minister may, in order to respond to the incident, do any or all of the following things:
             (a) authorise the Secretary to give information‑gathering directions to relevant entities for the assets;
             (b) authorise the Secretary to give action directions to relevant entities for the assets;
             (c) if the incident is a cyber security incident—authorise the Secretary to give intervention requests to the authorised agency.
         • An information‑gathering direction requires the relevant entities to give information to the Secretary.
         • An action direction requires the relevant entities to do, or refrain from doing, a specified act or thing.
         • An intervention request is a request that the authorised agency do one or more specified acts or things in relation to the assets.

Division 2—Ministerial authorisation relating to serious incidents