Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015

No. 26, 2015

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Parliamentary Service Act 1999 3

Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015

No. 26, 2015

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes

[Assented to 1 April 2015]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Service Amendment Act 2015.
2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Parliamentary Service Act 1999

 1 At the end of subsection 65A(2)

Add:

; and (d) either:

 i

the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police; or

 ii

(ii) a Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police or a senior executive AFP employee (within the meaning of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979) who is nominated by the Presiding Officers in writing.

 2 Subsection 65A(5)

After “management”, insert “or operation”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 November 2014

Senate on 27 November 2014]

(254/14)