21Stop‑over—general rule

21 Stop‑over—general rule

For the purposes of this Act, if: (a) a former member, or the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former Prime Minister undertakes a domestic return trip; and (b) the return trip uses an entitlement of the former member, or the surviving spouse or de facto partner, as the case may be, under this Act; and (c) there are one or more stop‑overs that satisfy the following conditions: (i) the stop‑over is longer than 24 hours; (ii) none of the circumstances surrounding the stop‑over are circumstances of a kind declared by the regulations to be exceptional circumstances; then, for each such stop‑over, the former member, or the surviving spouse or de facto partner, as the case may be, is taken to have completed an additional 0.5 domestic return trips at the time when the return trip was completed.