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PARLIAMENTARY RETIREMENT TRAVEL ACT 2002 - SECT 10

Former Prime Ministers who have retired from the Parliament

  (1)   The following table has effect:

 

Entitlements

Item

This person...

is entitled to...

1

a former Prime Minister who:

(a ) has retired from the Parliament; and

(b ) is the holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement

a maximum of 30 domestic return trips per year.

2

the spouse or   de   facto   partner of a former Prime Minister, where the former Prime Minister:

(a ) has retired from the Parliament; and

(b ) is the holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement

a maximum of 20 domestic return trips per year, so long as no more than 10 of those trips are non - accompanying/joining trips (as defined by subsection   ( 3)).

3

the surviving spouse or   de   facto   partner of a former Prime Minister

the following:

(a ) a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in the 12 - month period beginning at the time of the death of the former Prime Minister or the commencement of this section, whichever is later;

(b ) a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in each of the next 4 succeeding 12 - month periods;

(c ) a maximum of 5 domestic return trips in each subsequent succeeding 12 - month period.

Pro - rata adjustments

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) has effect subject to section   14 (pro - rata adjustments).

Non - accompanying/joining trip

  (3)   For the purposes of this section, a domestic return trip by the spouse or   de   facto   partner of a former Prime Minister is a non - accompanying/joining trip if the spouse or   de   facto   partner is not accompanying or joining the former Prime Minister.

 



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