Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY RETIREMENT TRAVEL ACT 2002 - SECT 21

    For the purposes of this Act, if:

  (a)   a former member, or the surviving spouse or   de   facto   partner of a former Prime Minister undertakes a domestic return trip; and

  (b)   the return trip uses an entitlement of the former member, or the surviving spouse or   de   facto   partner , as the case may be, under this Act; and

  (c)   there are one or more stop - overs that satisfy the following conditions:

  (i)   the stop - over is longer than 24 hours;

  (ii)   none of the circumstances surrounding the stop - over are circumstances of a kind declared by the regulations to be exceptional circumstances;

then, for each such stop - over, the former member, or the surviving spouse or   de   facto   partner , as the case may be, is taken to have completed an additional 0.5 domestic return trips at the time when the return trip was completed.