Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) In this Act—
"beneficial interest" means a beneficial interest specified in section 19(1) or 20(1) and includes an interest in a private superannuation fund;
"Budget" means the Electorate Office and Communications Budget;
"debt" does not include a personal debt of the Member—
(a) owed to a member of the Member's family; or
(b) owed to an ADI; or
(c) owed to a person whose ordinary business includes the lending of money; or
(d) arising from the supply of ordinary household or office‑related goods and services;
"domestic partner" of a person means—
(a) a person who is in a registered domestic relationship with the person; or
(b) an adult person to whom the person is not married but with whom the person is in a relationship as a couple where one or each of them provides personal or financial commitment and support of a domestic nature for the material benefit of the other, irrespective of their genders and whether or not they are living under the same roof, but does not include a person who provides domestic support and personal care to the person—
(i) for fee or reward; or
(ii) on behalf of another person or an organisation (including a government or government agency, a body corporate or a charitable or benevolent organisation);
"family", in relation to a Member, means the Member's spouse, domestic partner, child, grandchild, parent or grandparent, or any other person reasonably considered to be a member of the Member's family;
"gift" includes a transfer of property or the conferral of a financial benefit, including hospitality, made without consideration or without adequate consideration, but does not include—
(a) a political donation; or
(b) a gift made by a member of the Member's family;
"hospitality" does not include hospitality provided to the Member when the Member is acting in an official capacity;
"income" has the same meaning as assessable income has in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 of the Commonwealth but does not include—
(a) any parliamentary salary or work‑related parliamentary allowances, the Budget or any other public resources; or
(b) income from savings or investment accounts and public superannuation funds;
"listed corporation" has the same meaning as in section 9 of the Corporations Act;
"Member" means Member of the Parliament of Victoria;
"official capacity", in relation to a Member, means acting as, or on behalf of—
(a) a Member; or
(b) a Minister;
S. 2(1) def. of Parliamentary Integrity Adviser inserted by No. 27/2024 s. 126(a).
"Parliamentary Integrity Adviser" means the person appointed under section 91 of the Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Act 2024 ;
S. 2(1) def. of Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Commission inserted by No. 27/2024 s. 126(a).
"Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Commission" means the body established by section 42 of the Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Act 2024 ;
political donation has the same meaning as in the Electoral Act 2002 ;
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
"private superannuation fund" means a self managed superannuation fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 of the Commonwealth;
S. 2(1) def. of public duties amended by No. 27/2024 s. 126(b).
"public duties" includes the following—
(a) committee business;
(b) electorate business;
* * * * *
(d) parliamentary business;
S. 2(1) def. of public resources amended by No. 5/2019 s. 80(1).
"public resources" means the work-related parliamentary allowances and other funding, resources or facilities, including the Budget, provided for use by Members in the performance of their public duties but does not include the following—
(a) basic salaries and additional salaries payable under the Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Superannuation Act 1968 ;
(b) the separation payment under section 7E of the Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Superannuation Act 1968 ;
"public superannuation fund" means a superannuation fund that is not a private superannuation fund;
"Register" means the Register of Interests continued and maintained under section 26;
"return period", in relation to an ordinary return of a Member, means—
(a) in the case of a Member whose last return was a primary return, the period between the date of the primary return and 31 January or 30 June next following; and
(b) in the case of any other Member, the period between the date of the Member's last ordinary return and 31 January or 30 June next following;
"specified person" means—
(a) a member of the Member's family; or
(b) a corporation or entity in which the Member has an interest as an officer, a person with a controlling beneficial interest or a member; or
(c) a creditor or debtor of the Member, except where the debt is owed to or by a member of the Member's family, an ADI or other persons whose ordinary business includes the lending of money or the supply of ordinary household or office-related goods or services; or
(d) a donor of a gift to the Member;
"trade or professional organisation" means any body corporate or unincorporate of employers or employees of persons engaged—
(a) in primary, secondary or tertiary industry; or
(b) in any profession, trade or other occupation—
any of the objects of which is the furtherance of the industrial or economic interest of the body or any of its members;
S. 2(1) def. of work-related parliamentary allowances amended by No. 5/2019 s. 80(1).
work-related parliamentary allowances means the following allowances under the Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Superannuation Act 1968 —
(a) a parliamentary accommodation sitting allowance;
(b) a travel allowance;
(c) any other prescribed allowance.
(2) For the purposes of the definition of domestic partner in subsection (1)—
(a) registered domestic relationship has the same meaning as in the Relationships Act 2008 ; and
(b) in determining whether persons who are not in a registered domestic relationship are domestic partners of each other, all the circumstances of their relationship are to be taken into account, including any one or more of the matters referred to in section 35(2) of the Relationships Act 2008 as may be relevant in a particular case; and
(c) a person is not a domestic partner of another person only because they are co-tenants.
S. 3 inserted by No. 5/2019 s. 75.