Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1997 NO. 189, 1997 - SCHEDULE 1

1 Section 3

Insert:

Parliamentary Department means a Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 .

Audit Act 1901

2 Subsection 2(1)

Insert:

Department of the Parliament means a Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 .

3 Paragraph 12(3)(c)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(c) in respect of any other Parliamentary Department--the relevant persons are the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

(iv) in the case of any other Department of the Parliament--to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

Omit "Parliamentary Department for the purposes of subsection 9B(2) of the Public Service Act 1922 , the report required by that subsection", substitute "Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 , the report required by section 57 of that Act".

Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976

6 Subsection 4(1) (paragraph (c) of the definition of approving authority )

Omit "the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department", substitute "a Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 other than the Department of the Senate and the Department of the House of Representatives".

7 Subsection 9B(4)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(4) The reference in subsection (1) to an officer or employee of the Parliament is a reference to the Clerk of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of another Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 or a person engaged as an employee under section 22 of that Act.

Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973

8 Subsection 5A(1) (definition of Head )

Repeal the definition, substitute:

Head , in relation to a Parliamentary Department, means:

(a) if the Department is the Department of the Senate--the Clerk of the Senate;

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

(c) in the case of any other Department--the Secretary of that Department.

Repeal the definition, substitute:

Parliamentary Department means a Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1997 .

Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1997

10 Section 12

Repeal the section.

[ Minister's second reading speech made in

House of Representatives on 23 October 1997

Senate on 10 November 1997]

(199/97)