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PARLIAMENT OF QUEENSLAND (REFORM AND MODERNISATION) AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 15 - SECT 7

7 Insertion of new ch 5, pt 1A

Chapter 5—

insert—

'The Committee of the Legislative Assembly is established.

'(1) The committee comprises the following members—

(a) the Leader of the House or alternate;
(b) the Premier or alternate;
(c) the Deputy Premier or alternate;
(d) the Manager of Opposition Business or alternate;
(e) the Leader of the Opposition or alternate;
(f) the Deputy Leader of the Opposition or alternate;
(g) when the committee is dealing with a matter relating to the standing rules and orders—the Speaker.

'(2) In this section—

alternate, in relation to a member, means another member of the Assembly nominated by the first member to perform the first member's role as a member of the committee.

'The Leader of the House is to be the chairperson of the committee.

'At a meeting of the committee—

(a) a quorum is 4 members other than the Speaker; and
(b) a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting; and
(c) each member has a vote on each question to be decided.

'The committee has the following areas of responsibility—

(a) the ethical conduct of members;
Note—
However, under section 92(3), a complaint about a particular member not complying with the code of ethical conduct for members may be considered only by the Assembly or the Integrity, Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee.
(b) parliamentary powers, rights and immunities;
(c) standing rules and orders about the conduct of business by, and the practices and the procedures of, the Assembly and its committees;
(d) any other matters for which the committee is given responsibility under the standing rules and orders.

'The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical conduct of members includes—

(a) examining the arrangements, under resolutions or the standing rules and orders of the Assembly, for compiling, keeping and allowing inspection of—
(i) a register of the interests of members; and
(ii) a register of the interests of persons related to members; and
(b) considering proposals made by members and other persons about the form and content of the registers and documents relevant to the registers, including statements of interests to be made by members; and
(c) considering the classes of person who should be treated as related to a member; and
(d) publishing explanatory information about the requirements to register interests; and
(e) any other responsibility about the registration of interests the Assembly may order the committee to have; and
(f) considering any other issue about the registration of interests.

'(1) The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical conduct of members includes—

(a) publishing and reviewing a code of ethical conduct for members (other than members in their capacity as Ministers), including procedures for complaints about a member not complying with the code; and
(b) the reform of legislation and standing rules and orders about the ethical conduct of members, including the registration or declaration of interests; and
(c) publishing explanatory information about the obligations of members about their ethical conduct; and
(d) any other responsibility about the ethical conduct of members the Assembly may order the committee to have.

'(2) In reviewing the code of ethical conduct for members, the committee must have regard to—

(a) the ethics principles and values set out in the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994; and
(b) the desirability of consistency between standards in the code of ethical conduct and the ethics principles and values, to the extent the principles and values are relevant to members and their functions.

'The committee's area of responsibility about parliamentary powers, rights and immunities includes the powers, rights and immunities of the Assembly and its committees and members.'.



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