Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY RETIREMENT TRAVEL ACT 2002 - SECT 6

    For the purposes of this Act, if:

  (a)   a person dies while a member (whether the death occurs before, at or after the commencement of this section); and

  (b)   immediately before his or her death, the person satisfied the relevant qualifying period for the issue of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement ;

the person is taken:

  (c)   to have retired from the Parliament at the time of his or her death; and

  (d)   to have been qualified to hold a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement on retirement from the Parliament.