Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2024

We, the members of the Remuneration Tribunal, make the following determination.

Dated 23 December 2024

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination 2024

1  Name

  This instrument is the Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 sections 45, 46 and 46A of 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination 2024

1  After Part 4

Insert:

Part 4A—Deceased member allowance

Deceased member allowance

 4A.1 The allowance specified in section 4A.2 is determined for the purposes of subsection 15(2) of the PBR Act.

 4A.2 If a person dies while a member, the estate of the person is entitled to be paid an allowance calculated in accordance with the following formula:

(A x B) / 26

where:

A is the base salary applicable under section 2.1 on the day on which the person died.

B is the lesser of:

 (a) 13; and

 (b) the number of years, rounded down to the nearest whole year, in the period between the most recent day on which the person became a member of a relevant Parliament for the person and the day on which the person died.

  A Parliament is a relevant Parliament for a person if the person:

 (a) is a member of the Parliament; and

 (b) was not a member of the previous Parliament.

 4A.3 If, on the day that a person dies, the person is not a member but is entitled to be paid remuneration under section 49 of the PBR Act, the person is taken to be a member for the purposes of section 4A.2.

2  Schedule A (table item dealing with Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee of Privileges, column 1)

Omit “Privileges”, substitute “Privileges and Members’ Interests”.

3  Schedule A (table item dealing with Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee of Privileges, column 1)

Omit “Privileges”, substitute “Privileges and Members’ Interests”.

4  Schedule A (table item dealing with Chair of the House of Representatives Committee of Members’ Interests)

Repeal the item.