Queensland Numbered Acts

PARLIAMENT OF QUEENSLAND (REFORM AND MODERNISATION) AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 15 - SECT 44

Chapter 10—

insert—

'In this part—

commencement means the commencement of the provision in which the term is used.

repealed, in relation to a section, means as in force before the repeal of the section by the Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Act 2011.

'(1) The CLA is a committee to which section 112 applies.

'(2) A reference in section 112(1)(a) to a member of a committee includes a member of the Assembly who is, as a nominee, performing the role of a member of the CLA.

'(3) On the commencement of this subsection, the CLA continues as the committee established under section 79A.

'(4) In this section—

CLA means the committee appointed by a resolution of the Assembly on 10 March 2011 to be known as the Committee of the Legislative Assembly.

'(1) This section applies to each person who, immediately before the commencement, was a member of the Integrity, Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee established under repealed section 80.

'(2) The person continues as a member of the Ethics Committee established under section 102 until the appointment of members of the committee who have been nominated under section 103.

'(1) The scrutiny committee continues until the end of the transitional period.

'(2) During the transitional period, the scrutiny committee continues to have the area of responsibility that it had immediately before the commencement under repealed section 103, but only to the extent of—

(a) considering the application of fundamental legislative principles to—

(i) Bills introduced into the Assembly before the commencement; and

(ii) subordinate legislation made before the commencement; and

(b) considering the lawfulness of subordinate legislation made before the commencement; and

(c) continuing to conduct its current inquiries.

'(3) In this section—

current inquiry means an inquiry of the scrutiny committee, acting in its area of responsibility under repealed section 103(2), that the committee started before the commencement but had not completed by the commencement.

scrutiny committee means the committee that, immediately before the commencement, was the Scrutiny of Legislation Committee established under repealed section 80.

transitional period means the period from the commencement until the end of the day on 30 June 2011.

'(1) A member of the Assembly who was a member of a pre-reform committee may give to the Clerk any material held by the committee immediately before the commencement.

'(2) The Clerk may make the material available to a statutory committee to which the material is relevant.

'(3) In this section—

pre-reform committee means a committee established under repealed section 80.

'(1) Despite section 113(1), the amount of an additional salary of a member who is the Manager of Opposition Business is the amount fixed by the Governor in Council by gazette notice, as varied under section 115.

'(2) The gazette notice under subsection (1) has retrospective operation to 10 March 2011.

'(1) The Governor in Council may, by gazette notice, fix an amount of an additional salary to which a committee chairperson is entitled to.

'(2) If an amount is fixed by gazette notice under subsection (1) then, despite section 113(1), the amount of an additional salary of a member who is the committee chairperson is the amount fixed by the gazette notice, as varied under section 115.

'(3) In this section—

committee chairperson means the chairperson of a committee to which section 112 applies.

'(1) This section applies to a waiver held by the Speaker that was given to the Speaker under section 65(5) before the commencement.

'(2) The Speaker must give the waiver to the registrar.

'(3) The registrar must, in accordance with the standing rules and orders, include a copy of the waiver as part of the register of members' interests.'.