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PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 No. 145, 1999 No. 145, 1999 - SECT 7

Interpretation
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"acting SES employee "means a non-SES employee who is acting in a position usually occupied by an SES employee.

"APS employee" has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1999 .

"AWA "has the same meaning as in the Workplace Relations Act 1996 .

"award "has the same meaning as in the Workplace Relations Act 1996 .

"category of Parliamentary Service employee "means one of the following categories:

(a)
ongoing Parliamentary Service employees;

(b)
Parliamentary Service employees engaged for a specified term or for the duration of a specified task;

(c)
Parliamentary Service employees engaged for duties that are irregular or intermittent.

"certified agreement" has the same meaning as in the Workplace Relations Act 1996 .

"Classification Rules" means rules made under section 23.

"Code of Conduct" means:

(a)
the rules in section 13; and

(b)
any rules and orders made by the Senate or the House of Representatives under section 50 of the Constitution that apply to Parliamentary Service employees.

"Commissioner" means the Parliamentary Service Commissioner appointed under this Act.

"Department" means a Department of the Parliament that is established under this Act.

"determinations" means determinations under this Act other than Part 9.

"Executive Agency" has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1999 .

"insolvent under administration" means a person who:

(a)
has become bankrupt; or

(b)
has applied to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors; or

(c)
has compounded with his or her creditors; or

(d)
has assigned his or her remuneration for the benefit of his or her creditors.

"Merit Protection Commissioner" means the Parliamentary Service Merit Protection Commissioner appointed under this Act.

"minimum retiring age" means:

(a)
unless paragraph (b) applies, 55 years; or

(b)
if a higher or lower age is prescribed by the determinations—that age.

"modifications" includes additions, omissions and substitutions.

"non-ongoing Parliamentary Service employee" means a Parliamentary Service employee who is not an ongoing Parliamentary Service employee.

"non-SES employee" means a Parliamentary Service employee other than an SES employee.

"ongoing Parliamentary Service employee" means a person engaged as an ongoing Parliamentary Service employee, as mentioned in paragraph 22(2)(a).

"overseas" means outside Australia and the Territories.

"Parliamentary Service "means the Australian Parliamentary Service established by section 9.

"Parliamentary Service employee" means a person engaged as an employee under section 22.

"Parliamentary Service employment" means employment as a Parliamentary Service employee.

"Parliamentary Service Values" means the values in section 10.

"Presiding Officer "or Presiding Officers means:

(a)
where the expression is used in connection with a reference to the Department of the Senate or the Clerk of the Senate—the President of the Senate; or

(b)
where the expression is used in connection with a reference to the Department of the House of Representatives or the Clerk of that House—the Speaker of the House of Representatives; or

(c)
otherwise—the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives acting jointly.

"Public Service Commissioner" means the Public Service Commissioner appointed under the Public Service Act 1999 .

"relevant Department", in relation to a Secretary, means the Department of which he or she is the Secretary.

"Remuneration Tribunal" means the Remuneration Tribunal established by the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 .

"Secretary" means the Secretary of a Department and includes the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

"Secretary" of a Department means:

(a)
if the Department is the Department of the Senate—the Clerk of the Senate; or

(b)
if the Department is the Department of the House of Representatives—the Clerk of that House; or

(c)
if the Department is another Department—the Secretary of that Department.

"SES" means the Senior Executive Service established by section 35.

"SES employee" has the meaning given by section 34.


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