Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651:section:18:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 18 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 63483–65988

18  Benefits to members
 (1) Subject to this Act, a member who ceases to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance shall be entitled to benefits in accordance with this section.
Note: A benefit to which a person is entitled in accordance with this section may be reduced under Part VC (which deals with sustaining the superannuation contribution concession).
 (1AA) For the purposes of this section, the most recent benefit start‑up time is the time when a benefit becomes payable to the person (ignoring any application of subsection (8A) or (8AC)).
 (1A) Where the period of service of a member is not less than 12 years, then, subject to subsections (8A) and (8AC), the benefit shall be a retiring allowance during his or her life‑time at the rate applicable in accordance with the scale set out in subsection (6).
 (1B) Where the period of service of a member is less than 12 years but he or she has, on each of at least 4 occasions (including occasions before the commencement of this subsection), ceased to be a member upon the dissolution or expiration of the House of which he or she was then a member or upon the expiration of his or her term of office, then, subject to subsections (8A) and (8AC), the benefit shall be:
 (a) if his or her period of service is less than 8 years—a retiring allowance during his or her life‑time at the rate applicable in accordance with the scale set out in subsection (6) in the case of a member whose period of service is 8 years; or
 (b) in any other case—a retiring allowance during his or her life‑time at the rate applicable in accordance with the scale set out in subsection (6).
 (2) In the case of a member (other than a member to whom subsection (1A) or (1B) applies) who does not retire voluntarily and whose retirement is not an invalidity retirement, the benefit (subject to subsections (8A), (8AC) and (8B)) is:
 (a) where his or her period of service is not less than 8 years—a retiring allowance during his or her life‑time at the rate applicable in accordance with the scale set out in subsection (6);
 (aa) where his or her period of service is less than 8 years but he or she has, on each of at least 3 occasions (including occasions before the commencement of this paragraph), ceased to be a member upon the dissolution or expiration of the House of which he or she was then a member or upon the expiration of his or her term of office—a retiring allowance during his or her life‑time at the rate applicable in accordance with the scale set out