Bill
Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment (Injury Compensation Scheme) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-03-08. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-02-10
- second reading — 2016-02-10
- second reading — 2016-02-24
- second reading — 2016-02-24
- third reading — 2016-02-24
- introduced — 2016-02-24
- second reading — 2016-02-24
- second reading — 2016-02-29
- second reading — 2016-02-29
- third reading — 2016-02-29
- passed — 2016-02-29
- royal assent — 2016-03-08
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2016-02-10.
This bill would create a legislative basis for a new compensation scheme for parliamentarians and the Prime Minister's spouse.
The scheme would be established through a ministerial instrument and administered by Comcare, mirroring the benefits available to Commonwealth public servants.
The scheme would also cover damage to medical equipment used by those covered, a detail not otherwise specified in the source.
- Provides a legislative mechanism to establish the Parliamentary injury compensation scheme.
- Extends injury compensation, rehabilitation support, and work health and safety measures to parliamentarians and the Prime Minister's spouse.
- Allows the scheme to impose eligibility conditions and prevent or recover incorrect benefit payments.
- Confers administration of the scheme on Comcare.
Parliamentarians and the spouse of the Prime Minister, with Comcare as the administrator.
Sources
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