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

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 2   Amendments commencing on Proclamation

Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

9   Subsection 7(4) (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note: The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023 establishes the PWSS and the IPSC, which also have functions in relation to employment under this Act.

The PWSS:

(a) provides human resources support to parliamentarians, office-holders and their employees and has functions in the areas of policy development, training, advice, and education; and

(b) can exercise the powers of an employer in relation to persons employed under this Act in certain circumstances; and

(c) has some powers to suspend employees.

A Commissioner of the IPSC can, in certain circumstances, recommend that a parliamentarian or office-holder:

(a) terminate or suspend employees; and

(b) take other employment actions in relation to employees.