Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Act 1978 - SECT 6

A primary return shall have the following information

6. A primary return shall have the following information



(1) For the purposes of this Act a primary return shall be in the prescribed
form and contain the following information-

   (a)  a statement of any income source that the Member has or expects to
        have in the period of twelve months after the date of the primary
        return;

   (b)  the name of any company or other body in which on the date of the
        primary return the Member held any office whether as director or
        otherwise;

   (c)  the information as at the date of the primary return referred to in
        subsection 2(c), (d), (e), (f) and (i).

(2) For the purposes of this Act an ordinary return shall be in the prescribed
form and shall contain the following information-

   (a)  where the Member receives or is entitled to receive a financial
        benefit during any part of the return period-the income source of such
        financial benefit;

   (b)  where the Member holds or has held an office whether as director or
        otherwise in any company or other body, corporate or unincorporate,
        during the return period-the name of such company or other body;

   (c)  the name or description of any company, partnership, association or
        other body in which the Member holds a beneficial interest which
        exceeds in value $500;





   (d)  the name of any political party body or association or trade or
        professional organization of which the Member is or has been a member
        during the return period;

   (e)  a concise description of any trust in which the Member holds a
        beneficial interest or of which the Member is trustee and a member of
        his family has a beneficial interest;

   (f)  the address or description of any land in which the Member has any
        beneficial interest other than by way of security for any debt;

   (g)  the source of any significant contribution made in cash or in kind
        (other than any contribution by the State or any public statutory
        corporation constituted under the law of the State) to any travel
        beyond the limits of Victoria undertaken by the Member during the
        return period;

   (h)  particulars of any gift of or above the amount or value of $500
        received by the Member from a person other than a person related to
        him by blood or marriage;

        (i)    any other substantial interest whether of a pecuniary nature or
               not of the Member or of a member of his family or which the
               Member is aware and which the Member considers might appear to
               raise a material conflict between his private interest and his
               public duty as a Member.

(3) Nothing in this section requires a Member to include in the return any
information which has been disclosed in a previous return made by him under
this Part.



(4) A Member may at any time notify the Clerk of the Parliaments of any change
or variation in the information appearing on the register in respect of
himself or a member of his family.

(5) Nothing in this section shall be taken to require a Member to disclose the
amount of any financial benefit entered on the register in respect of such
Member or his spouse.