Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 11C

Determinations about general employment matters

  (1)   The Presiding Officers may make determinations under section   71 about employment matters relating to Parliamentary Service employees, including the matters referred to in subsection   11B(1).

Determinations about Parliamentary Service Employment Principles

  (2)   The Presiding Officers may make determinations under section   71 in relation to any of the Parliamentary Service Employment Principles for the purpose of:

  (a)   ensuring that the Parliamentary Service incorporates and upholds the Parliamentary Service Employment Principles; and

  (b)   determining where necessary the scope or application of the Parliamentary Service Employment Principles.

  (3)   However, the Presiding Officers must not make determinations for the purposes of subsection   ( 2) in relation to a Parliamentary Service Employment Principle unless:

  (a)   the Commissioner has given advice to the Presiding Officers under subsection   11B(2) in relation to the Parliamentary Service Employment Principle; and

  (b)   the Presiding Officers have had regard to that advice in making the determinations.

  (4)   For the purposes of this Act (other than subsection   ( 2) of this section), the Parliamentary Service Employment Principles have effect subject to any restrictions in determinations made for the purposes of that subsection.

Tabling of Commissioner's advice about Parliamentary Service Employment Principles

  (5)   If the Presiding Officers make determinations in relation to any of the Parliamentary Service Employment Principles in accordance with this section, the Presiding Officers must cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament a copy of the advice given by the Commissioner referred to in paragraph   ( 3)(a).