Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (STAFF) ACT 1984 - SECT 23

(1)

The employment of a person under this Part terminates if the Senator or Member of the House of Representatives by whom the person was employed:

(a)

dies; or

(b)

ceases to be a Senator or a Member of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.

(1A)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b):

(a)

a Senator shall be deemed not to have ceased to be a Senator while he or she continues to be entitled to the Parliamentary allowance that was payable to him or her as a Senator; and

(b)

a Member of the House of Representatives shall be deemed not to have ceased to be such a Member while he or she continues to be entitled to the Parliamentary allowance that was payable to him or her as such a Member.

(2)

A Senator or Member of the House of Representatives may at any time, by notice in writing given to a person employed by the Senator or Member under this Part, terminate the person's employment.

(3)

A person employed by a Senator or Member of the House of Representatives under this Part may at any time, by notice in writing given to the Senator or Member, terminate the person's employment.

(4)

Where the employment of a person under this Part is terminated by subsection (1), the Prime Minister may, by writing direct that the employment of the person shall be deemed:

(a)

not to have been so terminated; and

(b)

to have continued, or to continue, until a specified date;

and, where the Prime Minister so directs, the employment of the person under this Part shall for all purposes be deemed to have continued, or to continue, until that date.