Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A Secretary may, under section 15, impose the same sanctions on a Parliamentary Service employee in the relevant Department for pre - commencement misconduct as the Secretary could have imposed on the employee for that conduct under that section if the conduct had happened after the commencing time.
(2) Subsection ( 1) does not apply to conduct for which a person was charged under the old Act before the commencing time.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the procedures referred to in section 15 apply in determining whether:
(a) conduct was misconduct for the purposes of Subdivision C, D or E of Division 6 of Part III of the old Act; and
(b) conduct would have been a breach of the Code of Conduct if the conduct had happened after the commencing time.