Comprehensive revision of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (the Act), with regard to:

1. the recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice report, dated May 2008, particularly recommendation 71.2; and

2. recommendations relating to the Act from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Inquiry into the potential reforms of Australia’s National Security Legislation report, dated May 2013. 

Links to the reports referred to in the above terms of reference:

• Australian Law Reform Commission For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice report
• Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Inquiry into the potential reforms of Australia’s National Security Legislation report