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Membership of the Committee
Senator Grant Chapman, (Chairman)
Mr Bob Sercombe, MP, (Deputy Chairman)
Senator Stephen Conroy
Senator Barney Cooney
Senator the Hon Brian Gibson
Senator Andrew Murray
Ms Julie Bishop, MP
Mr Ross Cameron, MP
Mr Kevin Rudd, MP
Dr Andrew Southcott, MP
Duties
of the Committee
Section
243 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 1989
sets out the duties of the Committee as follows:
The
Parliamentary Committee's duties are:
- to inquire
into, and report to both Houses on:
- activities
of the Commission or the Panel, or matters connected with such activities, to
which, in the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention
should be directed; or
- the
operation of any national scheme law, or of any other law of the Commonwealth,
of a State or Territory or of a foreign country that appears to the
Parliamentary Committee to affect significantly the operation of a national
scheme law;
- to examine
each annual report that is prepared by a body established by this Act and of
which a copy has been laid before a House, and to report to both Houses on
matters that appear in, or arise out of, that annual report and to which, in
the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be
directed; and
- to inquire
into any question in connection with its duties that is referred to it by a
House, and to report to that House on that question.
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