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Parliament Act 2025

Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and parliamentary precincts - Parliamentary precincts - Speaker’s role in respect of parliamentary precincts

56: Speaker controls and administers parliamentary precincts

You could also call this:

"The Speaker is in charge of the area around Parliament."

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The Speaker is in charge of the parliamentary precincts for the House of Representatives. You can think of the Speaker as the person who makes sure everything runs smoothly in the area around Parliament. The Speaker can give some of their jobs to other people if they want to, as long as it is something the Speaker is allowed to do.

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Parliamentary precincts: Speaker’s role in respect of parliamentary precincts

56Speaker controls and administers parliamentary precincts

  1. The control and administration of the parliamentary precincts is vested in the Speaker on behalf of the House of Representatives.

  2. The Speaker may delegate to any person any function, duty, or power that the Speaker has as a consequence of subsection (1).

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