Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 6

             (1)  All people engaged on behalf of the Commonwealth as employees to perform functions in a Department must be engaged under this Act, or under the authority of another Act.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to people engaged on an honorary basis.

             (3)  This section does not, by implication, affect any power that a Secretary might otherwise have to engage persons as independent contractors.