India’s Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, passed a bill on Monday to amend a statute that delineates the powers of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the country’s federal anti-terrorism investigation agency. It will become law once it is passed by the upper house of parliament (Rajya Sabha) and receives presidential assent.

In its current form, the National Investigation Agency Act provides for a federal government agency to investigate and prosecute primarily terrorism-related offenses listed in a schedule to the legislation (scheduled offenses). It also authorizes the creation of special courts for this purpose.

The bill proposes to amend the law to expand the ambit of the NIA’s jurisdiction to include offenses such as human trafficking, counterfeit currency, manufacture or sale of prohibited arms, cyber-terrorism, and offenses under the Explosive Substances Act. If the bill becomes law, officers of the NIA will have the power to investigate scheduled offenses committed outside India, subject to international treaties and domestic laws of other countries.