Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 2001 - SECT 56

Notice to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

  (1)   The Minister must:

  (a)   give the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security a written statement of any decision under subsection   47(8), 48(6) or 52(1); and

  (b)   do so as soon as practicable after the decision is made.

Tabling requirement

  (2)   The Minister must cause a statement specifying the following to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Minister makes a decision under subsection   47(8), 48(6) or 52(1):

  (a)   the day on which the Minister made the decision and the subsection under which the decision was made;

  (b)   a description of the research program to which the decision relates.