Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Superannuation Act 1968
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(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter or thing required or permitted by Part 1 and this Part to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to Part 1 and this Part.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) prescribing a parliamentary office to be a prescribed parliamentary office for the purposes of paragraph (zb) of the definition of specified parliamentary office in section 3;
(b) prescribing allowances payable under this Part;
(c) the terms and conditions which are to apply to the provision and use of work-related parliamentary allowances and the Budget;
(d) the provision of any article, equipment or service to Members;
(e) the terms and conditions which are to apply to the provision and use of the article, equipment or service;
(f) the calculation and imposition of any contribution which the Member is required to make from the salary of the Member towards the cost of providing the article, equipment or service.
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) the provision of motor vehicles to Members;
(b) the terms and conditions which are to apply to the provision and use of that motor vehicle.
(4) The Minister must not submit for making any regulations proposed to be made under subsection (2)(a) unless the Minister has obtained the approval of the Presiding Officers.
(5) For the purposes of this section and any regulations made under subsection (3), motor vehicle includes any related equipment or services.
(6) The regulations may—
(a) leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person or specified class of persons;
(b) confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on any specified person or specified class of persons;
(c) apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without modification) the provisions of any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method whether as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made.
(7) Any regulations made under this section must not be inconsistent with a Determination.
(8) If a regulation made under this section is inconsistent with a Determination in effect before or after the making of the regulation, the Determination prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.