Parliament Act 2025

Parliamentary security - Application of parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties

166: Chief executive may authorise exercise or performance of powers and duties in particular electorate and community office

You could also call this:

"Chief Executive Can Send Security Help to Offices if They Think Someone is in Danger"

The chief executive can let parliamentary security officers work in a particular electorate and community office. You need to know that the chief executive will only do this if certain conditions are met. The member who runs the office must ask for help because they think there is a threat to someone in the office or the office itself. The chief executive must also check that the person who runs the office owns or rents it. The chief executive will talk to the Police about the threat before making a decision. The chief executive must believe that letting parliamentary security officers work in the office is a good way to deal with the threat. The chief executive gets to decide which parliamentary security officers can work in the office. You can think of parliamentary security officers as people who help keep everyone safe at Parliament. The chief executive's decision is based on what they think will keep people safe.

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165: Where parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties may be exercised or performed, or

"Where security officers can work at Parliament and other meeting places"

167: Limits on parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties, or

"What parliamentary security officers can and can't do"

Part 7Parliamentary security
Application of parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties

166Chief executive may authorise exercise or performance of powers and duties in particular electorate and community office

The chief executive may authorise 1 or more parliamentary security officers to exercise or perform their powers and duties in a particular electorate and community office.
The chief executive must not authorise the exercise or performance of powers and duties in an electorate and community office unless all of the following conditions have been met:
the member who operates the office has asked the chief executive to authorise 1 or more parliamentary security officers to exercise or perform their powers and duties in the office on the basis that there is a threat to 1 or more of the following:
1. a member:
2. any other person working in, visiting, or otherwise in the office:
3. the office:
the member who operates the office is the owner or occupier of the office:
the chief executive has consulted the Police about the threat:
the chief executive believes on reasonable grounds that authorising 1 or more parliamentary security officers to exercise or perform their powers and duties in the office is an appropriate response to the threat.