Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority) Rules 2017

I, Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, make the following rules.

Dated 17 February 2017

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

 

  This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority) Rules 2017.

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The day after this instrument is registered.

23 February 2017

2.  Schedule 1

3 April 2017.

3 April 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

  This instrument is made under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

 

1  After clause 11 of Schedule 1

Insert:

  For the purposes of the finance law:

 (a) the following group of persons is a listed entity:

 (i) the person occupying, or performing the duties of, the office known as the Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (the IPEA);

 (ii) persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 to assist in the performance of the functions of the IPEA;

 (iii) any persons (including persons known as members of the IPEA) engaged to assist in the performance of the functions of the IPEA;

 (iv) the members of any body established to assist the Chief Executive Officer of the IPEA in governing the IPEA; and

 (b) the listed entity is to be known as the IPEA; and

 (c) the Chief Executive Officer of the IPEA is the accountable authority of the listed entity; and

 (d) the persons referred to in paragraph (a) are officials of the listed entity; and

 (e) the purposes of the listed entity include the functions of the IPEA referred to in subsection 6(5) of the Public Service (Establishment of Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority) Order 2017.