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Inspector-General of Defence Act 2023

Miscellaneous provisions and consequential amendments - Advisors and staff

48: Advisory panel

You could also call this:

"The Inspector-General's advice team"

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The Inspector-General can choose a group of people to give them advice. You can think of this group as a team that helps the Inspector-General make decisions. The team can give advice when the Inspector-General asks for it or on their own. The Inspector-General gets to decide who is on this team. Each team member must have a special security clearance from the government. This means they have been checked to make sure they can handle secret information. When someone is chosen for the team, the Inspector-General must tell the public about it. They do this by putting the information on a website that everyone can access. The Inspector-General can also decide how the team works and what information they get to help them give good advice. The team can also make some of its own decisions about how it works. But the Inspector-General has some control over this too.

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Part 6Miscellaneous provisions and consequential amendments
Advisors and staff

48Advisory panel

  1. The Inspector-General may appoint an advisory panel of 2 or more people to provide the Inspector-General with advice on an ongoing basis.

  2. The advisory panel may provide its advice—

  3. at the Inspector-General’s request; or
    1. on its own initiative.

      1. Each member of the advisory panel must hold a government-sponsored security clearance of a level determined by the Minister.

      2. The Inspector-General must publish details of a person’s appointment under this section on a publicly accessible Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the Inspector-General.

      3. The Inspector-General may—

      4. set the advisory panel’s terms of reference:
        1. determine the panel’s procedure:
          1. give the panel any information that the Inspector-General considers may help the panel to provide the Inspector-General with advice.

            1. Subject to subsection (5)(b), the advisory panel may determine its own procedure.