Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY WORKPLACE SUPPORT SERVICE ACT 2023 - SECT 6

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, parliamentarian means:

  (a)   a senator; or

  (b)   a member of the House of Representatives; or

  (c)   a Minister of State who is not a senator or member of the House of Representatives; or

  (d)   a person who is taken to be the President of the Senate under the Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965 and who is not a senator or member of the House of Representatives; or

  (e)   a person who is taken to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives under the Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965 and who is not a senator or member of the House of Representatives; or

  (f)   a person not covered by any of paragraphs   (a) to (e) or (g) who is covered by subsection   (2) at a particular time; or

  (g)   a person not covered by any of paragraphs   (a) to (f) who held the office of Prime Minister.

  (2)   A person is covered by this subsection at a particular time if:

  (a)   the person was a senator or member of the House of Representatives immediately before an election period; and

  (b)   the person is a candidate at the election to which the election period relates; and

  (c)   the time is within the election period.

  (3)   In this section:

"election period" , in relation to an election (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 ), means the period:

  (a)   commencing on the day of issue of the writ for the election; and

  (b)   ending on the day of the declaration of the poll in the election.