Legislative Assembly (Members' Staff) (Amendment) Act 1997 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff)
(Amendment) Act 1997

No. 6 of 1997

An Act to amend the Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989

[Notified in ACT Gazette S92: 22 April 1997]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) (Amendment) Act 1997.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989.1

Office-holders may employ staff

4.  Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) “, in writing,” after “approved” and “determined”.

Members may employ staff

5.  Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) “, in writing,” after “approved” and “determined”.

Terms and conditions of employment

6. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4).

Insertion

7. Before section 14 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part IV:

Disallowable instruments

“13D.  An instrument referred to in section 4 or in subsection 5 (2), 6 (2), 8 (6), 10 (2), 11 (2) or 13 (5) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.”.

NOTE

Principal Act

1. Reprinted as at 28 February 1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 8 April 1997]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1997