Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

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The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is an Australian parliamentary oversight body that reviews and monitors the activities, administration, and legislation of the nation’s intelligence and security agencies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oversight body
parliamentary committee
canConduct inquiries
reviews of bills
statutory reviews of legislation
cannotReview individual complaints about agencies
specific intelligence operations
chamberRepresentation House of Representatives of Australia
Senate of Australia
composition members of the House of Representatives
senators
country Australia
hasFunction consider references from the Attorney-General
consider references from the Presiding Officers of Parliament
consider references from the Prime Minister
examine trends in security and intelligence
review administration and expenditure of intelligence agencies
hasRole parliamentary oversight of intelligence agencies
review of administration of intelligence agencies
review of intelligence and security legislation
jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia
language English
legalBasis Intelligence Services Act 2001
surface form: Intelligence Services Act 2001 (Cth)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security self-linksurface differs
surface form: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Act 2002 (Cth)
monitors Australian Federal Police
surface form: Australian Federal Police (in relation to certain national security matters)

Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate
Defence Intelligence Organisation
Office of National Intelligence
oversightArea counter-terrorism legislation
data retention and surveillance laws
foreign interference and espionage laws
intelligence
national security
partOf Parliament of Australia
predecessor Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security self-linksurface differs
surface form: Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO
produces parliamentary reports
reportsTo Parliament of Australia
subjectTo standing orders of the Parliament of Australia
typeOfOversight parliamentary, not operational
website https://www.aph.gov.au/pjcis
worksWith Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (Australia)
surface form: Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security

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Australian Signals Directorate overseenBy Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (Australia) relatedTo Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Australian Intelligence Community overseenBy Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security legalBasis Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Act 2002 (Cth)
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security predecessor Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation overseenBy Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security