Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY WORKPLACE SUPPORT SERVICE ACT 2023 - SECT 18

  (1)   The PWSS has the following education and training functions:

  (a)   to provide and arrange for education of, and for informing, Commonwealth parliamentary workplace participants about:

  (i)   the functions of the PWSS and the IPSC; and

  (ii)   work health and safety matters that arise in connection with the duties of parliamentarians, MOPS employees or designated workers; and

  (iii)   the Behaviour Codes ; and

  (iv)   for parliamentarians and MOPS employees--matters relating to the employment of MOPS employees or establishing and maintaining safe and respectful workplaces;

  (b)   without limiting paragraph   (a)--to provide, or arrange for the provision of, education or training programs to parliamentarians and MOPS employees about matters referred to in that paragraph;

  (c)   to develop and maintain, and make information available in relation to, a learning and professional development program for MOPS employees.

  (2)   The CEO may, by legislative instrument, determine:

  (a)   that a specified education or training program provided under paragraph   (1)(b) is a mandatory education or training program ; and

  (b)   requirements for the completion of a mandatory education or training program.

  (3)   A parliamentarian must comply with a requirement determined under paragraph   (2)(b) that applies to the parliamentarian.

Note:   The PWSS may take action in relation to a parliamentarian who fails to comply with such a requirement: see Division   4.

  (4)   The CEO must not determine under subsection   (2) that an education or training program is a mandatory education or training program only for a specified parliamentarian or MOPS employee.

  (5)   Before the CEO determines a mandatory education or training program or requirements for completing such a program:

  (a)   the CEO must consult the PWSS Consultative Committee about the proposed program or requirements; and

  (b)   the CEO must have referred the proposed program or requirements to the PWSS Advisory Board under section   44; and

  (c)   one of the following must have occurred:

  (i)   the PWSS Advisory Board was taken to have approved the proposed program or requirements under subsection   (4) of that section;

  (ii)   the PWSS Advisory Board has notified the CEO that it has decided to approve the proposed program or requirements.