18Education and training functions

18 Education and training functions

(1) The PWSS has the following education and training functions: (a) to provide and arrange for education of, and for informing, Commonwealth parliamentary workplace participants about: (i) the functions of the PWSS and the IPSC; and (ii) work health and safety matters that arise in connection with the duties of parliamentarians, MOPS employees or designated workers; and (iii) the Behaviour Codes; and (iv) for parliamentarians and MOPS employees—matters relating to the employment of MOPS employees or establishing and maintaining safe and respectful workplaces; (b) without limiting paragraph (a)—to provide, or arrange for the provision of, education or training programs to parliamentarians and MOPS employees about matters referred to in that paragraph; (c) to develop and maintain, and make information available in relation to, a learning and professional development program for MOPS employees. (2) The CEO may, by legislative instrument, determine: (a) that a specified education or training program provided under paragraph (1)(b) is a mandatory education or training program; and (b) requirements for the completion of a mandatory education or training program. (3) A parliamentarian must comply with a requirement determined under paragraph (2)(b) that applies to the parliamentarian.

Note: The PWSS may take action in relation to a parliamentarian who fails to comply with such a requirement: see Division 4.

(4) The CEO must not determine under subsection (2) that an education or training program is a mandatory education or training program only for a specified parliamentarian or MOPS employee. (5) Before the CEO determines a mandatory education or training program or requirements for completing such a program: (a) the CEO must consult the PWSS Consultative Committee about the proposed program or requirements; and (b) the CEO must have referred the proposed program or requirements to the PWSS Advisory Board under section 44; and (c) one of the following must have occurred: (i) the PWSS Advisory Board was taken to have approved the proposed program or requirements under subsection (4) of that section; (ii) the PWSS Advisory Board has notified the CEO that it has decided to approve the proposed program or requirements.