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Parliamentary Service Act 1999
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#### 83 Determinations
(1) The Presiding Officers, after consulting the Commissioner, may, by legislative instrument, make determinations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Part to be prescribed by determinations; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed by determinations for carrying out or giving effect to this Part.
(2) Without limiting, by implication, subsection (1), determinations may be made under subsection (1), in relation to Parliamentary Service employees, with respect to any matters with respect to which regulations may be made under subsection 14(3) of the Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999.
(3) Determinations made for the purposes of subsection (2):
(a) may provide for the old Act or the Merit Protection Act to continue in force for the purposes of the determinations, even though those Acts have been repealed; and
(b) prevail over the old Act, this Act and the Merit Protection Act, to the extent of any inconsistency.
(4) The determinations may:
(a) amend other Acts, by making amendments of a kind that are consequential on the repeal of the old Act and its replacement in relation to Parliamentary Service employees by this Act; and
(b) make provision of a transitional or saving nature in relation to amendments made under paragraph (a).
(5) For the purposes of the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905, amendments made by determinations under paragraph (4)(a) are to be treated as if they had been made by an Act.
(6) Determinations made under this section within one year after the commencing time may commence on a day earlier than the day on which they are made, but not earlier than the commencing time.
(7) The determinations may make provision, in relation to a matter that may be prescribed by the determinations, by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, provisions of regulations in force at a particular time, or as in force from time to time, under the Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999.