Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES ACT 1980 No. 160, 1980 - SECT 4

4. (1) Subject to this section, a person is not entitled to be paid, and shall
not be paid, any remuneration or allowance in respect of his holding, or
performing the functions of, an appointment as a Parliamentary Secretary to a
Minister of State.

(2) Subject to sub-section (3), a person who holds an appointment as a
Parliamentary Secretary to a Minister of State shall be reimbursed out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund such expenses as he reasonably incurs in respect of
his holding, or performing the functions of, that appointment.

(3) The expenses that a person who holds an appointment as a Parliamentary
Secretary to a Minister of State may be reimbursed under sub-section (2) shall
not exceed such allowance in respect of those expenses as the Remuneration
Tribunal determines or, if no determination of such an allowance by the
Remuneration Tribunal is in operation, such allowance in respect of those
expenses as is prescribed.

(4) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated for the purposes of
sub-section (2).

(5) The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing allowances for the
purposes of sub-section (3).