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the Parliamentary Business Resources (Commonwealth Parliament Offices) Determination (No. 1) 2019.

   3          Authority

   This determination is made under subsection 33(1) of the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017.

   4          Definitions

   In this determination:
   Act means the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017.
   Commonwealth Parliament Office (CPO) means any of the following office spaces that the Commonwealth, as represented by Ministerial and Parliamentary Services, leases for certain purposes, including to provide permanent and temporary office accommodation to members:
      (a)        1 Bligh Street, Sydney, New South Wales;
      (b)        NT House, 22 Mitchell Street, Darwin, Northern Territory;
      (c)        Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland;
      (d)        100 King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia;
      (e)        188 Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania;
      (f)         4 Treasury Place, East Melbourne, Victoria; and
      (g)        Exchange Tower, 2 The Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia,
   and includes any spaces that may be used by the Commonwealth in providing or administering public resources under the relevant lease.
   Department means the Department of Finance.
   permanent office means an office prescribed under subsection 72(1), 73(1) or 73(2) of the Regulations.
   Regulations means the Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017.
   temporary office means an office prescribed under subsection 72(2) of the Regulations.

      Note: A term that is defined in
           * the Act, such as member or IPEA,
           * the Regulations, such as electorate offices or home base,
         has the same meaning in this determination as it has in the relevant Act or instrument.

Part 2—Offices

   5          Provision of resources under this Part

   The resources determined under this Part are provided subject to Part 4.

   6          Provision of electorate offices to members

     (1)         The Commonwealth must provide to a member one electorate office as prescribed by subsection 72(1) of the Regulations in a CPO if the CPO is in the member's electorate.
     (2)        This section does not apply to a member to whom the Commonwealth must provide an office prescribed by subsection 72(1) of the Regulations, under any other determination made under subsection 33(1) of the Act from time to time.

         Note: A senator's electorate is the State or Territory represented by the senator, while a member's electorate means the area that constituted the member's electorate at the end of the most recent election period: see the definition of electorate in section 4 of the Regulations.

   7          Provision of offices to Ministers

     (1)        Subject to subsection (2), the Commonwealth must provide to a Minister (other than a Parliamentary Secretary) the following additional offices as prescribed by subsection 73(1) of the Regulations in a CPO:
         1. for a Minister, other than the Prime Minister–one office;
        2. for the Prime Minister—three offices.
     (2)        Where requested to do so by a Minister or the Prime Minister, the Commonwealth may:
         1. meet its obligations