6Members' salaries and allowances and work-related parliamentary allowances

6 Members' salaries and allowances and work-related parliamentary allowances

(1) A Member is to be paid—

(a) a basic salary and the electorate allowances and the expense allowances (if any); and

(b) if the Member is a specified parliamentary office holder, the additional salary payable in respect of that specified parliamentary office; and

(c) if the Member does not elect to be provided with a motor vehicle under section 6(6), the motor vehicle allowance.

(2) Subject to this Act and the regulations, a Member is to receive the following work‑related parliamentary allowances to support them in the exercise of their public duties—

(a) a parliamentary accommodation sitting allowance;

(b) a travel allowance;

(c) any other prescribed allowance.

(3) A Member who concurrently holds more than one specified parliamentary office is only entitled to receive one additional salary, being the highest additional salary to which the Member is entitled.

(4) The Leader of the Opposition must notify the relevant Clerk of a House in writing of the name of any Member of that House who holds the specified parliamentary office of Shadow Minister within 7 days of the Member holding or ceasing to hold that office.

(5) The Leader of the Opposition may under subsection (4) notify a number of Members who hold the specified parliamentary office of Shadow Minister being a number that is not greater than the number of Members who currently hold the specified parliamentary office of Minister.

(6) A Member may elect, in accordance with the regulations, to be provided with a motor vehicle in lieu of receiving a motor vehicle allowance under subsection (1)(c).

S. 7 amended by Nos 9432 ss 3(c), 4, 4/1996 s. 64(1)(2) 24/1996 s. 32, substituted by No. 37/2013 s. 5.