The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has today tabled an advisory report on the Transport Security Amendment (Security of Australia's Transport Sector) Bill 2024.
The report makes recommendations about proposed amendments to the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 (ATSA) and the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 (MTOFSA).
Committee Chair, Senator Raff Ciccone, said 'It has been over twenty years since the ATSA and MTOFSA became law and in that time the threat environment has changed considerably. It is appropriate that the legislative framework governing transport security change along with it. The Committee's advisory report makes a number of recommendations — recommendations that seek to improve the bill and make our aviation and maritime industries even safer than they are already'.
