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Part 6Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies
Parliamentary Service Commission: Membership

156Membership of Parliamentary Service Commission

  1. The Parliamentary Service Commission consists of the following members:

  2. the Speaker:
    1. a member representing each party that is represented in the House of Representatives:
      1. for each party that is represented in the House of Representatives by 30 or more members, an additional member representing that party.

        1. A person who, immediately before the dissolution or expiration of a Parliament, is a Commission member continues to be a Commission member until the first meeting of the House of Representatives after the next general election.

        2. A member who acts as a Commission member is acting in the member’s official capacity as a member of the House of Representatives.

        3. The chief executive must publish the membership of the Parliamentary Service Commission on an internet site maintained by or on behalf of Parliament.