Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Act 2024
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40B Consultants
Assisting the IPSC
(1) The Chair Commissioner may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, engage consultants to assist in the performance of the IPSC’s functions.
(2) A consultant engaged under subsection (1) to assist the IPSC is subject to the directions of the Chair Commissioner in relation to that assistance.
Assisting a Commissioner
(3) A Commissioner may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, engage consultants to assist in the performance of the functions of that Commissioner.
(4) A consultant engaged under subsection (3) to assist a Commissioner is subject to the directions of that Commissioner in relation to that assistance.
Division 4—Immunity from liability