26Vehicle travel

26 Vehicle travel

(1) Subsection (3) applies to use of a vehicle for an office holder’s travel on official business where the agency does not supply the office holder with a vehicle that can be used for the purposes of the travel. (2) However, if the office holder is provided with an agency vehicle at the office holder’s home base, subsection (3) does not apply to any journey commenced from the home base. (3) The office holder may choose to hire a vehicle or use the office holder’s own vehicle to travel on official business where it is demonstrably in the interest of the Commonwealth to do so. In such circumstances the Commonwealth is to: (a) meet the cost of a rental vehicle; or (b) pay a motor vehicle allowance at the rate of 88 cents per kilometre where a private vehicle is used for the journey. Any private vehicle used for this purpose must be comprehensively insured.