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Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies - Parliamentary Service - Employment in Parliamentary Service

131: Chief executive is employer and appoints and may remove employees

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"The boss of the Parliamentary Service chooses and manages the employees."

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The chief executive can choose the employees they think are needed to work in the Parliamentary Service. They have the same rights and responsibilities as an employer. The chief executive can remove an employee from their job at any time, as long as they follow the rules in the employee's employment agreement. The chief executive's decision to appoint someone to a job is not final until it has been reviewed, except for some parliamentary party employees. This review happens under clause 7 of Schedule 5. You can find more information about this in the link. The chief executive makes the decisions about who works in the Parliamentary Service and what happens to them if they are removed from their job.

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Part 6Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies
Parliamentary Service: Employment in Parliamentary Service

131Chief executive is employer and appoints and may remove employees

  1. The chief executive may appoint to the Parliamentary Service the employees that the chief executive thinks necessary.

  2. The chief executive has the rights, duties, and powers of the employer of the employees of the Parliamentary Service.

  3. The chief executive may, subject to any conditions of employment included in the employment agreement applying to an employee, at any time remove that employee from their office or employment.

  4. An appointment under this section (except an appointment of a parliamentary party employee) is provisional pending the outcome of any review of that appointment under clause 7 of Schedule 5.

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