Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Consequential Amendments) Act 2017 (Cth)

Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Consequential Amendments) Act 2017

No. 3, 2017

An Act to deal with consequential matters arising from the enactment of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017, and for related purposes

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Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Consequential Amendments) Act 2017

No. 3, 2017

An Act to deal with consequential matters arising from the enactment of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017, and for related purposes

[Assented to 22 February 2017]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act is the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Consequential Amendments) Act 2017.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	22 February 2017
2. Schedule 1	At the same time as section 3 of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017 commences.	1 July 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Freedom of Information Act 1982

1. 1

   Division 1 of Part II of Schedule 2 (after the item dealing with the Human Services Department)

   Insert:

Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, in relation to:

(a) documents requesting that the Authority give personal advice under paragraph 12(1)(a) or (p) of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017; and

(b) any other documents that concern the performance of a function conferred on the Authority by paragraph 12(1)(a) or (p) of that Act.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 9 February 2017

Senate on 15 February 2017]

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