Members of Parliament (Staff) (Employee Direction) Determination 2025 (Cth)

Members of Parliament (Staff) (Employee Direction) Determination 2025

I, Don Farrell, Special Minister of State, make the following determination.

Dated 12 February 2025

Don Farrell Special Minister of State

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 1 Name...................................................1 2 Commencement............................................1 3 Authority................................................1 4 Definitions...............................................1 Part 2—Directing electorate and personal employees 2 5 Responsibilities of parliamentarians and office-holders.....................2

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Members of Parliament (Staff) (Employee Direction) Determination 2025.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3 Authority This determination is made under section 13(2) of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the definitions section of the MOP(S) Act, including the following: (a) office-holder; (b) parliamentarian. In this instrument: MOP(S) Act means the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984. MOP(S) Act employee means, for the purposes of this determination, an electorate employee and a personal employee and does not include an official establishment employee. Official establishment employee means a person employed under subsection 11(2) of the MOP(S) Act who is: (a) employed to work in the Prime Minister's official establishments (including Kirribilli House, The Lodge, and the Prime Minister's Suite in the Australian Parliament House and in the Commonwealth Parliament Office in Sydney); and (b) covered by the Prime Minister's Official Establishments Enterprise Agreement 2024-26 and any enterprise agreement replacing it.