Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies in relation to a communication by the Organisation to another security vetting agency that is an authority of the Commonwealth (a Commonwealth security vetting agency ).
(2) A Commonwealth security vetting agency must not make, refuse to make or refrain from making a security clearance decision in respect of a person on the basis of any communication in relation to the person made by the Organisation not amounting to a security clearance suitability assessment.
(3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a Commonwealth security vetting agency from making a security clearance decision to temporarily:
(a) suspend a security clearance, or revoke a suspension of a security clearance, held by a person; or
(b) impose a condition, or vary a condition imposed, on a security clearance in respect of a person;
in the circumstances referred to in subsection (4).
(4) The circumstances are that:
(a) the Organisation makes a communication to the Commonwealth security vetting agency pending the furnishing of a security clearance suitability assessment in respect of the person; and
(b) the Commonwealth security vetting agency is satisfied, on the basis of that communication, that the requirements of security make it necessary as a matter of urgency to make the security clearance decision pending the furnishing of the security clearance suitability assessment.