Bill
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-09-19. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-08-10
- second reading — 2023-08-10
- second reading — 2023-09-07
- second reading — 2023-09-07
- third reading — 2023-09-07
- introduced — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- committee — 2023-09-14
- third reading — 2023-09-14
- other — 2023-09-14
- passed — 2023-09-14
- royal assent — 2023-09-19
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 2023-08-10.
This bill would remove the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service's power to review workplace complaints after two years.
The review function would be temporary until the proposed Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission is set up.
The amendments would take effect two years after the PWSS starts operating.
- Repeals the review function of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service.
- Introduces a sunset provision so the review function ends after two years.
- Transfers the review role to the proposed Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission once established.
The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service and the proposed Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission.
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