Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (STAFF) ACT 1984 - NOTES

This compilation was prepared on 1 August 2002
taking into account amendments up to Act No. 63 of 2002
and Statutory Rules 2000 No. 332
The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Note 1

The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 64, 1984 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 was amended by the Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Regulations 1999 (Statutory Rules 1999 No. 301 as amended by Statutory Rules 2000 No. 332). The amendments are incorporated in this compilation.

Table of Acts

(a) The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 was amended by sections 144 to 148 and 152(3)-(5) only of the Public Service Reform Act 1984, subsections 2(1) and (4) of which provide as follows:

(1) Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7, subsections 29(1) and (3), sections 107 and 108, Parts III and IV and sections 125, 138, 142, 144 and 149 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(4) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such day as is, or on such respective days as are, fixed by Proclamation.

(b) The Public Service Reform Act 1984 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984, subsubsection 2(21)(a) of which provides as follows:

(21) The amendments of the Public Service Reform Act 1984 made by this Act shall:

(a) in the case of the amendments of paragraph 5(5)(a), subsections 5(8), 11(1) and 12(1) and (4), paragraph 18(b), sections 19 and 21, paragraph 67(j), subsection 130(3), section 141 and subsections 151(5) and 152(2), (3), (4) and (5) of the first-mentioned Act—come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of, or on the respective days of commencement of, those provisions of that Act;.

(c) The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984 subsection 2(12) of which provides as follows:

(12) The amendment of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 made by this Act shall come into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of section 32 of that Act.

The date fixed in pursuance of subsection (12) was 1 July 1985 (see Gazette 1985, No. S221).
(d) The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1985, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(e) The Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 was amended by Schedule 1 (items 587-605) only of the Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999, subsections 2(1) and (2) of which provide as follows:

(1) In this Act, commencing time means the time when the Public Service Act 1999 commences.
(2) Subject to this section, this Act commences at the commencing time.

(f) The Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999 was amended by Schedule 2 (items 25, 26) only of the Statute Law Revision Act 2002, subsection 2(1) (items 54, 55) of which provides as follows:

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

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