South Australia

Parliamentary Remuneration (Restoration of Provisions) Amendment Bill 2004

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1990.

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1990

3 Amendment of section 4A—Non-monetary benefits

4 Repeal of section 4B

Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Remuneration (Restoration of Provisions) Amendment Act 2004.

2—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1990

3—Amendment of section 4A—Non-monetary benefits

(1) Section 4A(3)—delete:

or the provision of any monetary reimbursement in accordance with subsection (5)(b)

(2) Section 4A(4)—delete "(and must, in determining the terms and conditions which are applicable to a non-monetary benefit, adopt, so far as is reasonably possible, the same terms and conditions as are applicable to the same or a similar non-monetary benefit provided under the law of the Commonwealth to senators and members of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth)" and substitute:

, and to the terms and conditions on which such benefits are provided

(3) Section 4A(5)—delete subsection (5) and substitute:

(5) A determination of the Remuneration Tribunal with respect to the provision of motor vehicles to members of Parliament must specify a motor vehicle, or range of motor vehicles, that will constitute the standard motor vehicle to be provided to members in accordance with the determination.

4—Repeal of section 4B

Section 4B—delete the section

Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

The requirement, under Schedule 1 of the Parliamentary Remuneration (Non-monetary Benefits) Amendment Act 2004, for the Remuneration Tribunal to make a determination, within 4 months after the commencement of that Act, as specified in that Schedule is revoked (and any determination made in accordance with that requirement is void and of no effect).