Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Before giving the Board a direction under subsection 71(1), the Ministers must:
(a) send a draft of the direction to the Board; and
(b) invite the Board to make a submission to the Ministers on the draft direction within a reasonable time limit specified by the Ministers; and
(c) consider any submission that is received from the Board within that time limit.
(2) If:
(a) the Ministers give the Board a direction under subsection 71(1); and
(b) the Board made a submission to the Ministers on a draft of the direction within the time limit specified by the Ministers;
the submission is to be tabled in each House of the Parliament with the direction.
Note: For tabling of the direction, see section 38 of the Legislation Act 2003 .
(3) The Ministers must omit any national security information or sensitive financial intelligence information from the submission tabled under subsection (2).