Industry assistance Schedule 1 Amendments Part 1 1 Telecommunications Act 1997 2 5 Section 7 Insert: 3 ASIO means the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. 4 5 6 6 Section 7 (paragraph (a) of the definition of civil penalty provision) After “this Act” (first occurring), insert “(other than section 317ZB)”. 7 8 7 After Part 14 Insert: 9 10 Part 15—Industry assistance 11 Division 1—Introduction 12 317A Simplified outline of this Part 13 • The Director-General of Security, the Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate or the chief officer of an interception agency may give a technical assistance request to a designated communications provider. • A technical assistance request may ask the provider to do acts or things on a voluntary basis that are directed towards ensuring that the provider is capable of giving certain types of help to ASIO, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the Australian Signals Directorate or an interception agency in relation to: (a) enforcing the criminal law and laws imposing pecuniary penalties; or (b) assisting the enforcement of the criminal laws in force in a foreign country; or 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 No. , 2018 Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 5