House of Representatives Committees

| Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Preliminary pages

Membership of the Committee

Chair	The Hon Anthony Byrne MP
Deputy Chair	The Hon Philip Ruddock MP
Members	Mr Michael Danby MP	Senator Mark Bishop
	Mr John Forrest MP	Senator the Hon George Brandis SC
	Mr Daryl Melham MP (until 14 March 2012)	Senator the Hon John Faulkner
	The Hon Kevin Rudd MP (from 14 March 2012)	Senator the Hon David Johnston Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens
	Mr Andrew Wilkie MP

Committee Secretariat

Secretary	Mr Jerome Brown
Inquiry Secretary	Mr Robert Little
Research Officer	Mr Cameron Gifford
Administrative Officer	Ms Jessica Butler
	Mrs Sonya Gaspar
	Mr Raymond Jackson

Terms of reference

This inquiry and report is conducted under the following powers:

Criminal Code Act 1995

Section 102.1A Reviews by Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Review of listing regulation

(1) If a regulation made after the commencement of this section specifies an organisation for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in section 102.1, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security may:

(a) review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and

(b) report the Committee’s comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period.

And

Al-Shabaab

Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 7)

Registered: 17 August 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01693)

Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Statement of Reasons

Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 8)

Registered: 17 August 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01694)

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Statement of Reasons

Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 9)

Registered: 17 August 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01695)

Lashkar-e-Tayyiba Statement of Reasons

Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 10)

Registered: 17 August 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01696)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Statement of Reasons

– Criminal Code Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 11)

Registered: 17 August 2012 (FRLI: F2012L01697)

List of Recommendations

2 The Listings

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed.

Recommendation 2

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed.

Recommendation 3

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list the Kurdistan Workers Party as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed.

Recommendation 4

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list the organisation Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed

Recommendation 5

The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list the organisation Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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