Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person retires from the Parliament when the person ceases to be a member.
(2) For the purposes of subsection ( 1), a person is taken not to have ceased to be a member while he or she continues to be entitled to the Parliamentary allowance that was payable to him or her as a member.
(3) This Act applies to retirement from the Parliament, whether the retirement occurs before, at or after the commencement of this section.