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MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (LIFE GOLD PASS) ACT 2002 - SECT 11

Former members

Scope

             (1)  This section applies if a former member never held office as Prime Minister.

Entitlements

             (2)  The following table has effect:

 

Entitlements

Item

This person...

is entitled to...

1

a former member who is the holder of a Life Gold Pass

a maximum of 25 domestic return trips per year.

2

the spouse or de facto partner of a former member, where the former member is the holder of a Life Gold Pass

a maximum of 25 domestic return trips per year, so long as each trip is for the purpose of accompanying or joining the former member.

3

the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former member, where the former member:

(a)  was the holder of a Life Gold Pass at the time of his or her death; and

(b) died after the commencement of this section

the following:

(a)  a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in the 12‑month period beginning at the time of the death of the former member;

(b) a maximum of 5 domestic return trips in the next succeeding 12‑month period;

so long as each trip is completed before the end of that next succeeding 12‑month period.

4

the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former member, where the former member:

(a)  retired from the Parliament on or after 1 June 1976; and

(b) was the holder of a Life Gold Pass at the time of his or her death; and

(c)  died during the 12‑month period preceding the commencement of this section

the following:

(a)  a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in the 12‑month period beginning at the commencement of this section;

(b) a maximum of 5 domestic return trips in the next succeeding 12‑month period;

so long as each trip is completed before the end of that next succeeding 12‑month period.

5

the surviving spouse or de facto partner of a former member, where the former member:

(a)  retired from the Parliament before 1 June 1976; and

(b) was the holder of a Life Gold Pass at the time of his or her death; and

(c)  died before the commencement of this section

 

the following:

(a)  a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in the 12‑month period beginning at the commencement of this section;

(b) a maximum of 10 domestic return trips in each of the next 4 succeeding 12‑month periods;

(c)  a maximum of 5 domestic return trips in each subsequent succeeding 12‑month period.

Pro‑rata adjustments

             (3)  Subsection (2) has effect subject to section 14 (pro‑rata adjustments).


 

   



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