Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 February 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Alex Hawke

Special Minister of State

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017

1  Name

  This instrument is the Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017

1  Section 4 (definition of Canberra daily allowance)

Repeal the definition.

2  Section 4 (definition of electorate)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

electorate:

 (a) in relation to a senator, means the State or Territory represented by the senator; or

 (b) when used in a geographical sense in relation to a member of the House of Representatives, means the area that constituted the member’s electorate at the end of the most recent election period.

3  Section 11

Repeal the section.

4  Subsection 66(2)

Repeal the subsection.

5  Paragraph 71(1)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) a member of the House of Representatives has:

 (i) an electorate with an area of at least 5,000 km2; or

 (ii) both the approval of the Special Minister of State for the purposes of this subparagraph and an electorate with an area of at least 3,500 km2 but less than 5,000 km2; and

6  Paragraph 71(1)(b)

Omit “6 months”, substitute “3 months”.

7  After subsection 71(5) (before the note)

Insert:

 (6) This section does not apply in relation to more than one office leased by a particular member at any particular time.