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PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 No. 145, 1999 No. 145, 1999 - SECT 13
The Parliamentary Service Code of Conduct
- (1)
- A Parliamentary Service employee must behave honestly and with integrity
in the course of Parliamentary Service employment.
- (2)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee must act with care and diligence in the course
of Parliamentary Service employment.
- (3)
- A Parliamentary Service employee,
when acting in the course of Parliamentary Service employment, must treat
everyone with respect and courtesy, and without harassment.
- (4)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee, when acting in the course of
Parliamentary Service employment, must comply with all applicable Australian
laws. For this purpose, Australian law means:
- (a)
- any Act (including this
Act), or any instrument having effect under an Act; or
- (b)
- any law of a State
or Territory, including any instrument having effect under such a law.
- (5)
- A Parliamentary Service employee must comply with any lawful and reasonable
direction given by someone in the Department in which he or she is employed
who has authority to give the direction.
- (6)
- A Parliamentary Service employee
must maintain appropriate confidentiality about dealings that the employee has
with either House of the Parliament, with any committee of either House, with
any joint committee of both Houses, with any Senator or Member of the House of
Representatives or with the staff of any Senator or Member.
- (7)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee must disclose, and take reasonable steps to
avoid, any conflict of interest (real or apparent) in connection with
Parliamentary Service employment.
- (8)
- A Parliamentary Service employee must
use the resources of the Commonwealth in a proper manner.
- (9)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee must not provide false or misleading
information in response to a request for information that is made for official
purposes in connection with the employee's Parliamentary Service employment.
- (10)
- A Parliamentary Service employee must not make improper use of:
- (a)
- inside information; or
- (b)
- the employee's duties, status, power or authority;
in order to gain, or seek to gain, a benefit or advantage for the employee or
for anyone else.
- (11)
- A Parliamentary Service employee must at all times
behave in a way that upholds the Parliamentary Service Values and the
integrity and good reputation of the Parliamentary Service.
- (12)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee on duty overseas must at all times behave in a
way that upholds the good reputation of Australia.
- (13)
- A
Parliamentary Service employee must comply with any other conduct requirement
that is made by either House of the Parliament or by determinations.
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