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Parliament Act 2025

Salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others - Salaries, allowances, and certain expenses determined by Remuneration Authority - Requirements applicable to determinations about travel and accommodation expenses

83: Resolving issues about authorised funding and services determined by Remuneration Authority

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"Solving problems with funding and services decided by the Remuneration Authority"

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You need to know how issues about funding and services are resolved. The Remuneration Authority makes a plan to sort out problems with their decisions. They decide how to interpret or apply their rules under section 72 or 74. You should understand the plan has stages. First, they assess the issue to see if it can be agreed on. Then, if needed, the Remuneration Authority makes a final decision. The chief executive gets involved in some issues, like expenses for family members. For other issues, like Minister's expenses or former Prime Minister's travel, another chief executive joins in.

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Salaries, allowances, and certain expenses determined by Remuneration Authority: Requirements applicable to determinations about travel and accommodation expenses

83Resolving issues about authorised funding and services determined by Remuneration Authority

  1. The Remuneration Authority must establish a procedure for resolving issues about how a provision of a determination made by the Remuneration Authority under section 72 or 74 is to be interpreted or applied.

  2. The procedure must provide for—

  3. at least the following 2 stages:
    1. an assessment of the issue, including whether the issue is able to be resolved by agreement:
      1. if required, a final decision by the Remuneration Authority; and
      2. the participation of the chief executive, for issues concerning expenses for family members of members or eligible candidates; and
        1. the participation of the chief executive responsible for Ministerial Services, for the following issues:
          1. expenses of Ministers or Parliamentary Under-Secretaries or their family members:
            1. travel expenses of former Prime Ministers or their spouses or partners.

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