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:
authorise the Secretary to give information‑gathering directions to relevant entities for the assets;
authorise the Secretary to give action directions to relevant entities for the assets;
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.