##### 30DQ  Designated officer - \(1\) A designated officer is an individual appointed by the Secretary, in writing, to be a designated officer for the purposes of this Act\. - \(2\) The Secretary must not appoint an individual under subsection \(1\) unless: - \(a\) the individual is a Departmental employee; or - \(b\) both: - \(i\) the individual is a staff member of ASD; and - \(ii\) the Director‑General of ASD has agreed to the appointment\. - \(3\) The Secretary may, in writing, declare that each Departmental employee included in a specified class of Departmental employees is a designated officer\. - \(4\) The Secretary may, in writing, declare that each staff member of ASD included in a specified class of staff members of ASD is a designated officer\. - \(5\) The Secretary must not make a declaration under subsection \(4\) unless the Director‑General of ASD has agreed to the declaration\. - \(6\) For the purposes of this section, Departmental employee means an APS employee in the Department\. - \(7\) For the purposes of this section, staff member of ASD has the same meaning as in the Intelligence Services Act 2001\. - \(8\) A declaration under this section is not a legislative instrument\. ## Part 2D—Enhanced security regulation for critical telecommunications assets ### Division 1—Introduction --- ## Source and attribution Saved copy: C2018A00029 / C2026C00213 / f578e546a17068939a3a5a928474713f844dfae8 Scope: navPoint\_147 Compiled 2026\-06\-04\. This does not establish legal commencement\. Official source: https://www\.legislation\.gov\.au/C2018A00029/2026\-06\-04/2026\-06\-04/text/1/epub/OEBPS/document\_1/document\_1\.html Licence: https://creativecommons\.org/licenses/by/4\.0/ Based on content from the Federal Register of Legislation at 1 October 2026\. For the latest information on Australian Government legislation please go to https://www\.legislation\.gov\.au\. Converted XHTML into Tiptap JSON; recovered lists from paragraph classes; kept literal labels and text\. Print layout is changed\. The Commonwealth Coat of Arms is not covered by the CC BY licence\.