Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144:clause:3_4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 4
Character Range: 2407–4989

4  Definitions
Note:  This determination makes references to other documents and incorporates relevant meanings and provisions in other legislation, within the meaning of section 14(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003. To locate a copy of a relevant document, a specific reference to where it can be viewed free of charge in 2025 is included in a footnote to the relevant provision.
  In this instrument:
Electorate office means an office provided by the Commonwealth as determined under the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017, and, for the purposes of this determination, may include offices allocated to a Minister or an office-holder or another office as determined under that Act from time-to-time.
Enterprise Agreement means the Commonwealth Members of Parliament Staff Enterprise Agreement 2024-27[1] or any enterprise agreement replacing it.
MOP(S) Act means the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
MOP(S) Act employee means, for the purposes of this determination, an electorate employee and a personal employee and does not include an official establishment employee.
Official establishment employee means a person employed under subsection 11(2) of the MOP(S) Act who is:
 (a) employed to work in the Prime Minister's official establishments (including Kirribilli House, The Lodge, and the Prime Minister's Suite in the Australian Parliament House and in the Commonwealth Parliament Office in Sydney); and
 (b) covered by the Prime Minister's Official Establishments Enterprise Agreement 2024-26[2] and any enterprise agreement replacing it.
Work base means:
 (a) for an ongoing or non-ongoing MOP(S) Act employee, the place of work where the employee spends most time on duty (inclusive of any periods of temporary transfer); and
 (b) for a casual MOP(S) Act employee, the place of work where the employee spends most time on duty during the employee's employment agreement period, that is, the separate instances of work during the period in the employee's employment agreement will be considered together to determine the employee's work base.
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the definitions section of the MOP(S) Act, including the following:
                  (a) electorate employee;
                  (b) office-holder;
                  (c) parliamentarian;
                  (d) personal employee;
                  (e) personal employee (Ministerial);
                  (f) personal employee (non-Ministerial);
                  (g) PWSS;
                  (h) relevant office; and
                  (i) workplace.