Parliament Act 2025

Preliminary provisions

3: Purpose

You could also call this:

"This law helps make Parliament's rules clearer and more modern."

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The purpose of the Parliament Act 2025 is to update the laws about running and managing Parliament. You will see this Act does a few things, like setting rules for how public money is used by members and candidates. It also creates a new role for parliamentary security officers and gives them certain powers. The Act has parts that deal with different topics, like parliamentary privilege, which is explained in Part 2 and section 10. You can find more information about salaries and allowances in Part 4 and Schedule 3, which are also explained in section 60. This helps you understand how Parliament works and how it is managed. The Act aims to make the laws about Parliament clearer and more modern, which helps you know how it operates and makes decisions. You can look at the different parts of the Act to learn more about how it works. This includes how public money is used and how Parliament is kept safe.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

3Purpose

  1. The purpose of this Act is to consolidate and modernise the law about operating and administering Parliament.

  2. To that end, this Act—

  3. enacts principles for the use of public money and publicly funded services by members and eligible candidates:
    1. standardises provisions about employment in the Office of the Clerk and the Parliamentary Service:
      1. establishes the role of parliamentary security officer and confers powers and duties on those officers.
        1. Part 2 of this Act (which relates to parliamentary privilege) also has the purposes identified in section 10.

        2. Part 4 and Schedule 3 of this Act (which relate to salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others) also have the purposes identified in section 60.