Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment Act 2023 (71 of 2023)

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023

Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

6   At the end of section 15

Add:

CEO to act as employer

(5) If:

(a) because of a direction given by the Prime Minister under subsection (1) or (2), a person's employment is taken to continue until a specified date; and

(b) but for this section, the person's employment would have terminated because of table item 1 or 2 in subsection 14(1) (the employing individual dies or ceases to be a parliamentarian);

the CEO may exercise the powers of an employer in relation to the person at any time in the period starting when the person's employment would have terminated and ending at the end of the specified date.

(6) The powers referred to in subsection (5) do not include the power to terminate the person's employment.