Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.

(1) From the commencement of this section, the name for what was previously called a “Life Gold Pass” (the old name) is, by force of this section, changed to a “Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement” (the new name).

A reference in this Act to the new name includes (if the reference relates to a time before the commencement of this section) a reference to the old name.

Nothing in this section prevents a former member who has been the Prime Minister from becoming a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement.

A former member cannot become a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement if the first time that the former member became entitled to a parliamentary allowance was at or after the commencement of this section.

A former member who has been entitled to a parliamentary allowance before the commencement of this section cannot become a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement if, immediately before that commencement, the former member:

A former member who was entitled to a parliamentary allowance immediately before the commencement of this section cannot become a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement if:

For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), if a person:

For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), if a person:

For the purposes of subsections (4) and (5), a person who is elected as a result of a polling is taken to be elected on the polling day.

A person who did not satisfy the relevant qualifying period before 14 May 2014 cannot become a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement on retirement from the Parliament, unless the person is the Prime Minister, or a former Prime Minister, when he or she retires.

(2) A person who satisfied the relevant qualifying period before 14 May 2014 cannot become a holder of a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement on retirement from the Parliament on or after the day Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Act 2017 commences, unless the person is the Prime Minister, or a former Prime Minister, when he or she retires.section 1 of the

If:

The effects of expiry of a person’s Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement are as follows:

Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply to a person who later becomes the Prime Minister.

Certain Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlements expire at the end of 13 May 2014

If:

If:

If:

If:

If, under subsection (6) or (7), a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement would (but for this subsection) expire at a time before the end of 13 May 2014, the Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement is instead taken to expire under that subsection at the end of that day.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person retires from the Parliament when the person ceases to be a member.

For the purposes of subsection (1), a person is taken not to have ceased to be a member while he or she continues to be entitled to the Parliamentary allowance that was payable to him or her as a member.

This Act applies to retirement from the Parliament, whether the retirement occurs before, at or after the commencement of this section.

For the purposes of this Act, if a return trip begins in a particular year, the trip is taken to be in that year (even if the trip is completed after the end of that year).

Surviving spouse or de facto partner

Subsection (1) does not apply for the purposes of determining the entitlements of the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former Prime Minister.

If:

If the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former Prime Minister has entitlements under this Act only in relation to:

In order for a spouse or de facto partner of a person to be entitled to domestic return trips under this Act, there must be a nomination in force under section 9B in relation to the spouse or de facto partner.

Only one spouse or de facto partner of a person may be nominated at any time.

A person who has a spouse or de facto partner may nominate the spouse or de facto partner as the spouse or de facto partner who is entitled to domestic return trips under this Act.

The nomination must:

The start day may be earlier than the day the nomination is made but must not be earlier than the day on which the spouse or de facto partner became the spouse or de facto partner of the person.

The nomination is in force during the period:

If the start day for a subsequent nomination naming another spouse or de facto partner of a person includes a period during which a previously nominated spouse or de facto partner of the person took one or more domestic return trips, then, despite section 9A, the previously nominated spouse or de facto partner is taken to have been entitled to those domestic return trips.

The following table has effect:

Pro-rata adjustments

Subsection (1) has effect subject to section 14 (pro-rata adjustments).

Non-accompanying/joining trip

(3) For the purposes of this section, a domestic return trip by the spouse or de facto partner of a former Prime Minister is a non-accompanying/joining trip if the spouse or de facto partner is not accompanying or joining the former Prime Minister.

This section applies if a former member never held office as Prime Minister.

Entitlements

The following table has effect:

Pro-rata adjustments

Subsection (2) has effect subject to section 14 (pro-rata adjustments).

The following table has effect:

Pro-rating of entitlement

The number of domestic return trips for the purposes of the table in subsection (1) is:

For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), the formula is:

where:

remaining period means the period:

A number worked out using the formula is to be rounded to the nearest whole number that is greater than zero (rounding up in the case exactly half-way between 2 whole numbers).

Adjustments if maximum term of Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement under subsection 4C(6) or (7) will end during a year

(4) For the purposes of the application of item 1 or 2 of the table in maximum term) specified in paragraph (c) of that subsection will end during a year, the item has effect for that year as if the number of domestic return trips specified in the item were the number worked out using the formula:section 11 to a former member to whom subsection 4C(6) or (7) applies, if the 72 or 36 months (the

where:

eligible period means the period:

A number worked out using the formula is to be rounded to the nearest whole number that is greater than zero (rounding up in the case exactly half-way between 2 whole numbers).

This Part applies to a person if:

As soon as practicable after the order is made, the DPP must give written notice of the fact to the Minister.

Pre-commencement orders

If the order was made before the commencement of this Part, this Part has effect as if the order had been made immediately after the commencement of this Part.

If the order is revoked, the DPP must give written notice of the fact to the Minister.

Effect of revocation of order

If the order is revoked, the following table has effect:

Interaction between items 1 and 2 of the table in subsection (2) and the rules in section 4C about expiry of Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlements

If:

(4) The nominal expiry time for a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement is the time specified in section 4C for the expiry of the Entitlement.

If the order is revoked, the following table has effect:

If a determination under subsection (1) is made before the 28th day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, the determination takes effect on that 28th day.

If a person has entitlements under this Act in relation to a particular year, an unused entitlement cannot be carried forward from that year to a later year.

If the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a retired former Prime Minister has entitlements under this Act in relation to a particular 12-month period, an unused entitlement cannot be carried forward from that 12-month period to a later 12-month period.

A person’s entitlement to travel under this Act cannot be used or anticipated before the year or period in which the entitlement accrues.

If:

This section applies to frequent flyer points accrued before, at or after the commencement of this section.

The Remuneration Tribunal may make a determination for the purposes of this Act.

Inconsistency

A determination of the Remuneration Tribunal under subsection (1A) has no effect to the extent to which it is inconsistent with this Act.

Qualification for a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement

A determination of the Remuneration Tribunal under subsection (1A) is to make provision for the circumstances in which a member will, on retirement from the Parliament, qualify for a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement.

A determination under subsection (1A) may provide for different circumstances for different kinds of members.

Severance travel

This Act (other than Part 6) does not affect:

A determination of the Remuneration Tribunal under section 30 must be in writing.

Commencement of the determination

The determination comes into operation on:

The Tribunal must give the Remuneration Tribunal Minister a copy of the determination.

The Tribunal must ensure that its reasons for making the determination are published on its website and notified to the Remuneration Tribunal Minister.

Legislative instrument

(5) The determination is a legislative instrument, but Legislation Act 2003 does not apply to the determination.section 42 (disallowance) of the

(1) If, apart from this subsection and paragraph 31(b), the Commonwealth does not have power under this Act to make a payment of an amount purportedly by way of an entitlement of a person (the recipient) to travel at Commonwealth expense, then:

The reference in subsection (1) to the Commonwealth not having power to make a payment of an amount purportedly by way of an entitlement of a person to travel at Commonwealth expense includes a reference to the Commonwealth only having power to make a payment for lower-cost travel. In this situation, paragraph (1)(c) applies to the amount by which the payment of costs exceeds what it would have been if the lower-cost travel had instead been undertaken.

Interaction with debt recovery regime in section 33

If an amount is recovered under subsection 33(2), the amount cannot be recovered under paragraph (1)(c) of this section.

If an amount is recovered under paragraph (1)(c), the amount cannot be recovered under subsection 33(2).

If:

If the Commonwealth and the person do not agree on the amount of the compensation, the person may institute proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia for the recovery from the Commonwealth of such reasonable amount of compensation as the court determines.

In this section:

acquisition of property has the same meaning as in paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution.

just terms has the same meaning as in paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution.

If:

The amount may be recovered, as a debt due to the Commonwealth by the person, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Transitional—subparagraph (1)(b)(ii)

Subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) does not apply to travel that occurred after the commencement of section 30 unless the travel is part of a return trip that began before the commencement of that section.