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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1987 - SECT 2

Continuation of remuneration, allowances and other entitlements for certain re-elected members

    (1)     Where:

        (a)     a person was declared under section 131 of the Electoral Act 2004 as elected at an election of members or a member of the Legislative Assembly (the previous election );

        (b)     the Court of Disputed Returns under that Act declared that the person was not duly elected or that the previous election was void;

        (c)     at an election held as a consequence of the Court's declaration the person was again declared under that Act as elected; and

        (d)     the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly is satisfied that the declaration of the Court in relation to the previous election was not as the result of any fault of the person,

the person is entitled to the remuneration, allowances and other entitlements of a member of the Legislative Assembly to which he or she would have been entitled in respect of the relevant period if the declaration of the Court had not been made and the person had been sworn in as a member.

    (2)     In subsection (1) the relevant period is the period between the polling day of the previous election referred to in subsection (1)(a) and the polling day of the subsequent election referred to in subsection (1)(c).



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