Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The appropriate authorising officer may, after considering an application for an authority to conduct an integrity testing operation in relation to a target agency, and any additional information provided under subsection 15JF(2):
(a) authorise the operation by granting the authority, in writing, either unconditionally or subject to conditions; or
(b) refuse the application.
(2) The authorising officer must not grant the authority to conduct the integrity testing operation unless the authorising officer is satisfied that:
(a) there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a Commonwealth offence or a State offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment for 12 months or more, has been, is being or is likely to be committed by a staff member of the target agency (whether or not the identity of the staff member is suspected or known); and
(b) it is appropriate in all the circumstances to conduct the operation; and
(c) if the authorising officer is an officer of the National Anti - Corruption Commission--in addition to the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b), the operation is part of a corruption investigation.
(3) The authorising officer may grant an integrity testing authority even if the operation has been authorised by a previous integrity testing authority, or has been the subject of a previous application for such an authority.
Example: The authorising officer may grant an integrity testing authority that authorises the continuation or resumption of an operation authorised by an earlier authority.
(4) An integrity testing authority is not a legislative instrument.
Note: See the table in section 15JE for who are the appropriate authorising officers for a proposed integrity testing operation in relation to a target agency.