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Parliamentary Legislation Amendment
Bill 2007
Introduction Print
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Clause Notes
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
Clause 1 provides that the purpose of the Act is to amend the
Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 to rename the Economic
Development Committee and alter its functions; to rename the
Rural and Regional Services and Development Committee; and
to increase the maximum number of members of a Joint
Investigatory Committee. The Act also amends the
Parliamentary Salaries and Superannuation Act 1968 to
provide for additional salary payable to certain Members of
Parliament.
Clause 2 provides that the proposed Act will commence operation on the
day after the day on which it receives Royal Assent.
PART 2--PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ACT 2003
Clause 3 amends section 5 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 to
provide for the renaming of two Joint Investigatory Committees.
Clause 4 amends section 8 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003
to provide that the Economic Development and Infrastructure
Committee has the additional function of inquiring into,
considering and reporting to the Parliament on any proposal,
matter or thing concerned with infrastructure.
Clause 5 amends section 16 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003
to change references to the Rural and Regional Services and
Development Committee to the Rural and Regional Committee.
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Clause 6 amends section 21(1) of the Parliamentary Committees Act
2003 to increase the maximum number of members of a Joint
Investigatory Committee from 9 to 10.
Clause 7 inserts a new section 66 into the Parliamentary Committees
Act 2003. Section 66 provides that the successor committees
specified in the Table can consider evidence that was obtained by
the specified former committees where the term of that former
committee has ended and that committee has not yet tabled a
report to Parliament.
Clause 8 repeals Part 7 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 for
the purposes of making statute law revisions which remove
references to defunct legislation.
PART 3--PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES AND
SUPERANNUATION ACT 1968
Clause 9 amends section 6 of the Parliamentary Salaries and
Superannuation Act 1968 to delete the requirement that the
Leader of the Third Party in the Legislative Council must have
at least 4 members of that party as Members of the Legislative
Council to qualify for the prescribed Additional Salary.
This clause amends section 6 to change the Additional Salary
payable to the Chairperson of the Public Accounts and Estimates
Committee to 20% of his or her basic salary, and the Additional
Salary payable to the Chairperson of the Scrutiny of Acts and
Regulations Committee to 15% of his or her basic salary.
This clause amends section 6 to ensure that the Chairpersons of
all other Joint Investigatory Committees, other than the Public
Accounts and Estimates Committee and the Scrutiny of Acts and
Regulations Committee, continue to be entitled to an Additional
Salary of 10% of each of their basic salaries.
This clause amends section 6 to provide that the Deputy
Chairpersons of the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee
and the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee are each
entitled to an Additional Salary of 4% of his or her basic salary.
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PART 4--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT
Clause 10 provides for the automatic repeal of this amending Act on the
first anniversary of its commencement. As suggested by the
Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, all amending Acts
now contain an automatic repeal provision, which will save the
time and expense of having to repeal amending Acts in statute
law revision Bills. The repeal of this Act does not affect in any
way the operation of the amendments made by this Act (see
section 15(1) of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984).
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