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Salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others - Expenses and services determined by Speaker - Speaker to determine expenses for certain inter-parliamentary and exchange programmes

88: Speaker to determine travel and accommodation expenses for official inter-parliamentary relations and political exchange programmes

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"The Speaker decides travel and accommodation costs for Parliament members on official trips."

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The Speaker will decide what travel and accommodation expenses to pay for when you are part of official inter-parliamentary relations or political exchange programmes. You might be going to these programmes as a member of Parliament, or as a spouse or partner of a member, or as an employee of the Parliamentary Service. The Speaker will also decide what expenses to pay for when you are doing approved professional development as part of these programmes. The Speaker must make these decisions in a way that helps all members travel for these programmes, no matter what their individual needs are. When the Speaker talks about approved professional development, they mean development that they have agreed is related to your professional growth and is suitable for your participation in the inter-parliamentary relations programme. If the Speaker makes a decision about these expenses, it is considered secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements as outlined in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. You can find more information about what this means by looking at the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 4Salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others
Expenses and services determined by Speaker: Speaker to determine expenses for certain inter-parliamentary and exchange programmes

88Speaker to determine travel and accommodation expenses for official inter-parliamentary relations and political exchange programmes

  1. The Speaker must determine the following expenses to be paid out of public money:

  2. travel expenses and accommodation expenses outside New Zealand for the following persons:
    1. members participating in the official inter-parliamentary relations programme:
      1. spouses or partners accompanying members who are participating in the official inter-parliamentary relations programme:
        1. members nominated to participate in a political exchange programme:
          1. employees of the Parliamentary Service nominated to participate in a political exchange programme:
          2. travel expenses, accommodation expenses, and related expenses outside New Zealand for members undertaking approved professional development associated with their participation in the official inter-parliamentary relations programme.

            1. The Speaker must determine the expenses specified in subsection (1) in a way that facilitates any member travelling as a participant in the applicable programme, regardless of a member’s individual needs.

            2. In this section, approved professional development means professional development that the Speaker has approved as being for a purpose that is—

            3. related to the member’s professional development; and
              1. appropriate in relation to the member’s participation in the inter-parliamentary relations programme.

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

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