5Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

#### 5 Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this subsection and the first session of each Parliament, a joint committee of members of the Parliament, to be known as the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, is to be appointed. (2) The Committee is to consist of 16 members of the Parliament. 6 members must be members of, and be appointed by, the Senate. 10 members must be members of, and be appointed by, the House of Representatives. The members must be appointed according to the practice of the Parliament for the appointment of members to serve on joint select committees of both Houses of the Parliament. (3) Each member shall hold office during the pleasure of the House by which he or she was appointed. (4) Either House of the Parliament may appoint one of its members to fill a vacancy amongst the members of the Committee appointed by that House. (5) Each member shall cease to hold office when the House of Representatives expires by effluxion of time or is dissolved. (6) At any time at which: (a) there is constituted a Standing Committee of the House of Representatives known as the Expenditure Committee; and (b) the Chair of that Committee is not a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit by virtue of an appointment under subsection (2); that Chair shall, by virtue of his or her office as Chair of the Expenditure Committee, be a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit in addition to the members referred to in subsection (2), but is not eligible to be elected as Chair of the last‑mentioned Committee.