Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 3

    The main objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to establish a non - partisan Parliamentary Service that is efficient and effective in serving the Parliament; and

  (b)   to provide a legal framework for the effective and fair employment, management and leadership of Parliamentary Service employees; and

  (c)   to define the powers and responsibilities of Secretaries, the Parliamentary Librarian, the Parliamentary Service Commissioner and the Parliamentary Service Merit Protection Commissioner; and

  (d)   to establish rights and obligations of Parliamentary Service employees.