Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049:section:7:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 32804–35649

Act 2009.
paid work means work for financial gain or reward (whether as an employee, a self‑employed person or otherwise).
parliamentarian means:
 (a) a senator; or
 (b) a member of the House of Representatives; or
 (c) a Minister of State (whether or not a senator or member of the House of Representatives); or
 (d) a person who is taken to be the President of the Senate under the Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965 and who is not a senator or member of the House of Representatives; or
 (e) a person who is taken to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives under the Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965 and who is not a senator or member of the House of Representatives; or
 (f) a person to whom remuneration is payable under section 49 of the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017.
parliamentary office means the office of a parliamentarian.
Note: A parliamentarian is not a staff member of the parliamentary office (see paragraph 12(5)(c)).
permanent resident of Australia: see subsection 240(4).
person assisting the Inspector: see section 195.
PGPA Act means the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
post‑charge: see section 130.
post‑confiscation application: see section 135.
pre‑charge: see section 129.
pre‑confiscation application: see section 134.
premises includes a place, a conveyance or a container.
private hearing summons: see subsection 95(4).
proceeds of crime authority: see section 138.
prosecuting authority: see subsection 105(6).
prosecutor: see subsection 105(5).
protected information report: see sections 152, 165 and 218.
protected suspect: see subsection 132(3).
psychologist means a person registered or licensed as a psychologist under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of psychologists.
public inquiry means a public inquiry conducted under Part 9.
public official: see section 10.
relevant confiscation proceeding: see section 137.
relevant offence: see section 131.
resolved: for when a charge for an offence, or a confiscation proceeding, is resolved, see section 139.
secrecy provision means:
 (a) a provision of a law of the Commonwealth that purports to prohibit; or
 (b) anything done, under a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, to prohibit;
any of the following:
 (c) the use of information, or a document or thing;
 (d) dealing with information, or a document or thing;
 (e) making a record of information, or a copy of a document or thing;
 (f) the disclosure or publication of information;
 (g) the production of, or the publication of the contents of, a document;
 (h) the production of a thing;
 (i) access to information, a document or a thing;
regardless of whether the provision of the law of the Commonwealth:
 (j) commenced before the commencement of this definition; or
 (k) is expressed to apply