Defence and Veterans' Service Commissioner (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025

Mr KEOGH (Burt—Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel) (09:29): I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Defence and Veterans' Service Commissioner (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025 is part of a package of two bills which together will enshrine the legislative establishment of the Defence and Veterans' Service Commissioner and commission in their own standalone legislation as was always intended.

This bill makes consequential amendments necessary to implement the measures in the Defence and Veterans' Service Commissioner Bill 2025, which I have just introduced. In particular, the bill makes minor consequential amendments to the Archives Act 1983 and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986, arising from the movement of the provision establishing the Defence and Veterans' Service Commissioner from the Defence Act 1903 into its own standalone legislation.

The details of the measures in this bill are contained in the explanatory memorandum for the primary bill. I commend the bill to the House. Debate adjourned.