Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144:clause:3_3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025N00144
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 3
Character Range: 8974–11137

3                                       Third electorate office, if determined by the Minister   One additional electorate employee   One full-time Electorate Officer B position

 (5) Any electorate employee position allocated to a parliamentarian may have the parliamentarian's second or third electorate office as that employee's work base, subject to there being a minimum of one and a maximum of two full-time electorate employee positions in each of the parliamentarian's allocated electorate offices.
 (6) An electorate employee position allocated to a parliamentarian who is a member of the House of Representatives may have the parliamentarian's satellite office as that employee's work base, subject to there being a minimum of one and a maximum of two full-time electorate employee positions in each of the parliamentarian's allocated electorate offices.
 (7)  For the purposes of this section, a satellite office is an office privately leased by the parliamentarian for which the parliamentarian is eligible to receive reimbursement of certain expenses in accordance with section 71 of the Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017.
 (8) For the purpose of subsection 7(1), the office of a parliamentarian who is an office-holder is an office, other than the parliamentarian's electorate office or Parliament House office, provided to that parliamentarian as a consequence of being such an office-holder.
 (9) Despite subsection 7(1), the Special Minister of State may approve an alternative work base for an electorate employee.
 (10) An SES employee in the Ministerial and Parliamentary Services Division of the Department of Finance may approve but not decline an alternative work base for an electorate employee, subject to any conditions specified by the Special Minister of State.
Note: An SES employee has the meaning in the Public Service Act 1999.
Note:  In the Members of Parliament (Staff) Delegation 2023[5] the Prime Minister delegated this power to SES employees of the Ministerial and Parliamentary Services Division of the Department of Finance under section 30(1) of the MOP(S) Act.

Part 4—Terms and conditions of employment