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

66   After subsection 61(2)

Insert:

Authorisation to disclose information - between PWSS and IPSC

(2A) The PWSS may disclose information (including personal information) to the IPSC if the disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist:

(a) the IPSC to perform any of its functions or exercise any of its powers; or

(b) a Commissioner to perform any of the Commissioner's functions or exercise any of the Commissioner's powers.

(2B) The IPSC may disclose information (including personal information) to the PWSS if the disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist:

(a) the PWSS to perform any of its functions or exercise any of its powers; or

(b) the CEO to perform any of the CEO's functions or exercise any of the CEO's powers.

Parliamentarians not taken to be office-holders etc.