Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) The PWSS has the following education and training functions:
(a) to provide and arrange for education of, and for informing, Commonwealth parliamentary workplace participants about:
(i) the functions of the PWSS; and
(ii) work health and safety matters that arise in connection with the duties of parliamentarians, MOPS employees or designated workers; and
(iii) codes of conduct, prescribed by the PWSS rules, relating to parliamentarians, MOPS employees or other persons at a place covered by paragraph (a) of the definition of Commonwealth parliamentary workplace in section 5; and
(iv) for parliamentarians and MOPS employees--matters relating to the employment of MOPS employees or establishing and maintaining safe and respectful workplaces;
(b) without limiting paragraph (a)--to provide, or arrange for the provision of, education or training programs to parliamentarians and MOPS employees about matters referred to in that paragraph;
(c) to develop and maintain, and make information available in relation to, a learning and professional development program for MOPS employees.
(2) The CEO may, by legislative instrument, determine:
(a) that a specified education or training program provided under paragraph (1)(b) is a mandatory education or training program ; and
(b) requirements for the completion of a mandatory education or training program.
(3) A parliamentarian must comply with a requirement determined under paragraph (2)(b) that applies to the parliamentarian.
Note: The PWSS may take action in relation to a parliamentarian who fails to comply with such a requirement: see Division 4.
(4) The CEO must not determine under subsection (2) that an education or training program is a mandatory education or training program only for a specified parliamentarian or MOPS employee.
(5) Before the CEO determines a mandatory education or training program or requirements for completing such a program:
(a) the CEO must consult the PWSS Consultative Committee about the proposed program or requirements; and
(b) the CEO must have referred the proposed program or requirements to the PWSS Advisory Board under section 44; and
(c) one of the following must have occurred:
(i) the PWSS Advisory Board was taken to have approved the proposed program or requirements under subsection (4) of that section;
(ii) the PWSS Advisory Board has notified the CEO that it has decided to approve the proposed program or requirements.