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Review of the listing of Jabhat al-Nusra and the re-listing of six terrorist organisations

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security resolved to inquire into and report on the Review of the listing of Jabhat al-Nusra and the re-listing of six terrorist organisations:

• Abu Sayyaf Group
• Al-Qa'ida
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Al-Qa'ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb
• Jamiat ul-Ansar
• Jemaah Islamiyah

Section 102.1A of the Criminal Code Act 1995 provides that the Committee may review a regulation which lists an organisation as a terrorist organisation and report its comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period for the House. The disallowance period is 15 sitting days from the day the regulation is tabled.

The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference by Friday, 10 January 2014 . Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to pjcis@aph.gov.au or sent on disk or CD-ROM to the Committee Secretariat in Microsoft Word^® or Portable Document Format (PDF).

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