Parliamentary (Disclosure of Interests) Act 1996
6Disclosure in primary returns
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6 Disclosure in primary returns
[Section 6 Substituted by No. 41 of 2017, s. 7, Applied:01 Dec 2017] Subject to Division 2 , a Member must disclose in a primary return the following:
(a) in respect of each source of income that the Member or a spouse of the Member has received or reasonably expects to receive during the period starting on the first day after the primary return date and ending on the next following 30 June –
(i) the person or other entity from which the income was received or is to be received; and
(ii) why the income was received or is to be received;
(b) the legal nature of any interest that the Member or a spouse of the Member holds in real property on the primary return date and the address of that property;
(c) the nature of any interest, or description of any position, whether remunerated or not, that the Member or a spouse of the Member holds in any corporation on the primary return date and the name and address of that corporation;
(d) a description of any position that the Member or a spouse of the Member holds in any trade union or professional or business association, whether remunerated or not, on the primary return date and the name of that trade union or association;
(e) the name and address of any person or other entity to whom the Member or the spouse of the Member is liable to pay any debt as at the primary return date, whether or not the debt was due and payable on that date.