(1) Secretaries are bound by the Code of Conduct in the same way as Parliamentary Service employees.
(2) Statutory office holders are bound by the Code of Conduct, subject to any determinations made under subsection ( 2A).
(2A) The determinations may make provision in relation to the extent to which statutory office holders are bound by the Code of Conduct.
Note: The determinations may make provision with respect to different statutory office holders or different classes of statutory office holders (see subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ).
(3) In this section:
"statutory office holder" means a person who holds any office or appointment under this Act, being an office or appointment that is prescribed by the determinations for the purposes of this definition.