This Part provides for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards.

The Parliamentary Joint Committee is to be appointed as soon as practicable after the commencement of the first session of each Parliament.

The functions of the Parliamentary Joint Committee include:

  (a)   considering proposed recommendations for the appointment of Commissioners; and

  (b)   reviewing the operation and effectiveness of each Behaviour Code; and

  (c)   monitoring and reviewing the performance by the Commissioners of their functions; and

  (d)   reporting to both Houses of the Parliament on any matter connected with the performance of the functions of the IPSC or the Commissioners.