Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00797:section:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00797
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 16837–19340

period exceeding 12 months.
service provider has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.
signals includes electromagnetic emissions.
staff member, subject to subsection 41AC(3), means:
 (a) in relation to ASIO—a member of the staff of ASIO (whether an employee of ASIO, a consultant or contractor to ASIO, or a person who is made available by another Commonwealth or State authority or other person to perform services for ASIO); and
 (b) in relation to an agency—a member of the staff of the agency (whether an employee of the agency, a consultant or contractor to the agency, or a person who is made available by another Commonwealth or State authority or other person to perform services for the agency); and
 (c) in relation to DIO—a member of the staff of that part of the Defence Department known as the Defence Intelligence Organisation, whether:
 (i) an employee, a consultant or contractor that works in that part of the Defence Department; or
 (ii) a person who is made available by another Commonwealth authority, a State authority or other person to perform services for that part of the Defence Department.
State authority includes:
 (a) a Department of State of a State or Territory or a Department of the Public Service of a State or Territory; and
 (b) a body (whether incorporated or not) established, or continued in existence, for a public purpose by or under a law of a State or Territory; and
 (c) a body corporate in which a State, Territory or a body referred to in paragraph (b) has a controlling interest.
State body, for the purposes of Division 1A of Part 6, has the meaning given by subsection 41BA(5).
subcontractor, for an ASD contract, means a person:
 (a) who is a party to a contract (the subcontract):
 (i) with a contracted service provider for the ASD contract (within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of contracted service provider); or
 (ii) with a subcontractor for the ASD contract (under a previous application of this definition); and
 (b) who is responsible under the subcontract for the provision of services to ASD, or to a contracted service provider for the ASD contract, for the purposes (whether direct or indirect) of the ASD contract.
 (2) For the purposes of determining whether a body is an authority of another country, it does not matter whether:
 (a) the body is established by a law of the country; or
 (b) the body is connected with an internationally recognised government of the country.