Simplified outline of this Part
35AA Simplified outline of this Part
• This Part sets up a regime for the Commonwealth to respond to a serious incident that has had, is having, or is likely to have, one or more relevant impacts on one or more critical infrastructure assets.
• The Minister may, in order to respond to the incident, do any or all of the following things:
authorise the Secretary to give information‑gathering directions to relevant entities for the assets;
authorise the Secretary to give action directions to relevant entities for the assets;
if the incident is a cyber security incident—authorise the Secretary to give intervention requests to the authorised agency.
• An information‑gathering direction requires the relevant entities to give information to the Secretary.
• An action direction requires the relevant entities to do, or refrain from doing, a specified act or thing.
• An intervention request is a request that the authorised agency do one or more specified acts or things in relation to the assets.
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