##### 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: - \(a\) authorise the Secretary to give information‑gathering directions to relevant entities for the assets; - \(b\) authorise the Secretary to give action directions to relevant entities for the assets; - \(c\) 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\. ### Division 2—Ministerial authorisation relating to serious incidents --- ## Source and attribution Saved copy: C2018A00029 / C2026C00213 / f578e546a17068939a3a5a928474713f844dfae8 Scope: navPoint\_171 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\.