82ECommunications by Organisation to another Commonwealth security vetting agency

#### 82E Communications by Organisation to another Commonwealth security vetting agency (1) This section applies in relation to a communication by the Organisation to another security vetting agency that is an authority of the Commonwealth (a Commonwealth security vetting agency). (2) A Commonwealth security vetting agency must not make, refuse to make or refrain from making a security clearance decision in respect of a person on the basis of any communication in relation to the person made by the Organisation not amounting to a security clearance suitability assessment. (3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a Commonwealth security vetting agency from making a security clearance decision to temporarily: (a) suspend a security clearance, or revoke a suspension of a security clearance, held by a person; or (b) impose a condition, or vary a condition imposed, on a security clearance in respect of a person; in the circumstances referred to in subsection (4). (4) The circumstances are that: (a) the Organisation makes a communication to the Commonwealth security vetting agency pending the furnishing of a security clearance suitability assessment in respect of the person; and (b) the Commonwealth security vetting agency is satisfied, on the basis of that communication, that the requirements of security make it necessary as a matter of urgency to make the security clearance decision pending the furnishing of the security clearance suitability assessment.