PART 2PARLIAMENTARY RETIREMENT TRAVEL

PART 2 – PARLIAMENTARY RETIREMENT TRAVEL

2.1 For subsection 30(2) of the PRT Act, a member will, upon retirement from the Parliament, qualify for a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement if:

a. the person has served as Prime Minister; and

b. either:

i. the person served as Prime Minister for at least one year; or

ii. the person served as a senator or member of the House of Representatives for at least 20 years.

2.2 A period of service for the purposes of clause 2.1 may be continuous or broken.

2.3 For the purposes of clause 2.1(b)(ii), the period for which the person served as Prime Minister is to be trebled.

Note: For example, if a person serves as a senator for 19 years and six months, the final six months of which were as Prime Minister, the person will qualify for for a Parliamentary Retirement Travel Entitlement. The period of service as a senator will be taken to be 20 years and six months.

Signed this 12 day of December 2017.