Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical conduct of members includes--
(a) publishing and reviewing a code of ethical conduct for members (other than members in their capacity as Ministers), including procedures for complaints about a member not complying with the code; and
(b) the reform of legislation and standing rules and orders about the ethical conduct of members, including the registration or declaration of interests; and
(c) considering complaints against particular members for failing to comply with the code of ethical conduct, reporting on complaints to the Assembly and recommending action by the Assembly; and
(d) publishing explanatory information about the obligations of members about their ethical conduct; and
(e) any other responsibility about the ethical conduct of members the Assembly may order the committee to have.
(2) In reviewing the code of ethical conduct for members, the committee must have regard to--
(a) the ethics principles and obligations set out in the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994; and
(b) the desirability of consistency between standards in the code of ethical conduct and the ethics principles and obligations, to the extent the principles and obligations are relevant to members and their functions.
(3) A complaint about a member not complying with the code of ethical conduct for members may be considered only by the Assembly or the committee.
(4) Subsection (3) has effect despite any other law, but the subsection does not apply to a court, tribunal or other entity if the entity may, under a law, consider an issue and the issue that is considered involves the commission, or claimed or suspected commission, of a criminal offence.
(5) Subsection (4) does not limit or otherwise affect the powers, rights and immunities of the Assembly and its committees and members.