Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES ALTERATION ACT 1986 No. 105, 1986 - SECT 15

15. (1) Where-

   (a)  a person has been paid an amount by way of-

        (i)    parliamentary salary; or

        (ii)   parliamentary superannuation benefit; and

   (b)  the amount so paid exceeds the amount that the person would have been
        entitled to be paid if Part II had been enacted, and had come into
        operation, on 1 July 1986, the person is liable to pay to the
        Commonwealth the amount of the excess.

(2) Where a person is liable to pay an amount to the Commonwealth under
sub-section (1)-

   (a)  the amount may be recovered, as a debt due to the Commonwealth, by
        action in a court of competent jurisdiction; and

   (b)  the amount may be deducted from any other amount that is payable to
        the person by way of parliamentary salary or
        parliamentary superannuation benefit, as the case requires.

(3) In this section-

"parliamentary salary" means an allowance paid to a member of the Parliament,
being-

   (a)  an allowance of the kind referred to as basic salary in paragraph 1 of
        Determination No. 8 of 1986 of the Remuneration Tribunal dated 6 June
        1986; or

   (b)  an allowance of the kind referred to as additional salary in paragraph
        1 of Determination No. 7 of 1986 of the Remuneration Tribunal dated 6
        June 1986;

"parliamentary superannuation benefit" means a retiring allowance, annuity or
other benefit payable under the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation  Act
1948 .