Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049:section:8:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 39437–40878

need not be for personal benefit
 (8) Conduct involving a public official may be corrupt conduct even if the conduct is not for the person's personal benefit.

Conduct alone or with others
 (9) A person may engage in corrupt conduct alone, or with the agreement or participation of other persons (whether or not those other persons are public officials).

Conduct amounting to conspiracy or attempt
 (10) Conduct comprising conspiracy or an attempt to commit or engage in conduct covered by subsection (1) is itself corrupt conduct.

Conducting parliamentary business using public resources
 (11) To avoid doubt, the use by a parliamentarian, or a staff member of a Commonwealth agency, of public resources to conduct parliamentary business in accordance with the following does not constitute corrupt conduct:
 (a) the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017;
 (b) the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
 (12) Terms used in subsection (11) that are defined in the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 have the same meaning in that subsection as they do in that Act.

Political activities
 (13) To avoid doubt, conduct engaged in as part of a political activity does not constitute corrupt conduct if the conduct does not involve or affect either of the following:
 (a) the exercise of a power, or the performance of a function or duty, by a public official;
 (b) the use of public resources (within the meaning of the PGPA Act).