PART 3 – REMUNERATION OF MEMBERS: OTHER REMUNERATION

Provision of private plated vehicles: PBR Act, paragraph 14(4)(a)

3.1 A senator or member of the House of Representatives is, upon request, to be provided with a private plated standard vehicle that is generally made available by the Commonwealth for the purpose and is not a luxury car.

3.2 A senator or member of the House of Representatives for an electoral division the area of which is less than 300,000km2 is, upon request, to be provided with a private plated vehicle that is not generally made available by the Commonwealth for the purposes of clause 3.1 but which is made available by the Commonwealth for the purposes of this clause. Despite anything else in this Determination, the following amount (the ‘excess lease cost’) is to be applied in accordance with clause 3.3:

A – B

where

A = the cost, per annum, of the lease of the vehicle

B = the cost, per annum, of the lease of the most expensive vehicle made available by the Commonwealth for the purposes of clause 3.1.

3.3 The excess lease cost is to be applied in accordance with the following method:

a. first, to reduce one of the following amounts:

i. the amount applicable in subsection 14(1) of the PBR Regulations for the senator or member;

ii. the electorate allowance determined in clause 2.8 for the senator or member; and

b. if that amount is reduced to zero—to reduce the other amount.

3.4 A vehicle provided in accordance with clause 3.2 is provided instead of a vehicle provided in accordance with clause 3.1.

3.5 A member of the House of Representatives for an electoral division the area of which is 300,000km2 or more is, upon request, to be provided with a private plated four-wheel-drive vehicle made available by the Commonwealth for the purposes of this clause instead of a vehicle provided in accordance with clause 3.1 or 3.2.

3.6 A senator for the Northern Territory or a member of the House of Representatives for an electoral division the area of which is 300,000km2 or more is, upon request, to be provided with up to two private plated four-wheel-drive vehicles made available by the Commonwealth for the purposes of this clause in addition to any other vehicle provided in accordance with clause 3.1, 3.2 or 3.5.

3.7 If one or more additional vehicles are provided then, despite anything else in this Determination, the cost of the lease, per annum, of the additional vehicle is to be applied in accordance with the following method:

a. first, to reduce one of the following amounts:

i. the amount applicable in subsection 14(1) of the PBR Regulations for the senator or member;