Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if at any time when the Assembly is not sitting the seat of any member has become vacant for any cause.
(2) The Speaker, or if the member concerned is the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, may direct the Treasurer to retain the amounts that would be payable to the member for the interval between the happening of the cause and the next sitting or session of the Assembly.
(3) If the Assembly declares the seat to have been vacated, no payment is to be made to the member for the time that has elapsed since the happening of the cause.
(4) However, if the seat is not declared to have been vacated, the amounts retained by the Treasurer are to be immediately paid to the member.