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Parliament Act 2025

Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and parliamentary precincts - Parliamentary precincts - Land, premises, and status

53: House of Representatives may add land to parliamentary precincts

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"Parliament can add or remove land from the area around Parliament Buildings"

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You can think of the parliamentary precincts as the area around Parliament. The House of Representatives can decide to add more land to this area if the Crown or the Parliamentary Corporation owns it. They can also decide to remove some land from the area. When the House of Representatives makes this decision, it is called secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as outlined in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The Clerk must send a copy of the decision to the Parliamentary Counsel Office so it can be published, as required by the Legislation Act 2019.

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Parliamentary precincts: Land, premises, and status

53House of Representatives may add land to parliamentary precincts

  1. The House of Representatives may, by resolution,—

  2. add to the parliamentary precincts any land or premises in which the Crown or the Parliamentary Corporation holds an interest; or
    1. exclude any land or premises from the parliamentary precincts.

      1. A resolution under subsection (1) is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      2. The Clerk must lodge a copy of the resolution with the Parliamentary Counsel Office for the purpose of publication under the Legislation Act 2019.

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