Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Act 2024 (86 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Amendments commencing on Proclamation

Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023

32   After subsection 16(2)

Insert:

(2A) If the first party apologises to the second party for the alleged relevant conduct while the PWSS is providing services under this section to the parties, the making of the apology:

(a) is not an admission of fault or liability; and

(b) is not admissible in evidence against the first party in any civil proceedings in respect of the conduct.

(2B) Subsection (2A) does not apply in relation to conduct that would constitute an offence.