Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01239:reg:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01239
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 11732–14636

5  Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
(a) APS employee;
(b) Code of Conduct;
(c) Department;
(d) ongoing Parliamentary Service employee;
(e) Presiding Officers.
  In this instrument:
Aboriginal person has the same meaning as in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005.
Act means the Parliamentary Service Act 1999.
affected employee has the meaning given by subsection 80(1).
affected former employee has the meaning given by subsection 115(1).
Agency Head has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1999.
APS agency means an Agency within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999.
broadband has the same meaning as in subrule 9(4) of the Parliamentary Service Classification Rules.
classification means:
 (a) in relation to a Parliamentary Service employee or Parliamentary Service employment—an approved classification within the meaning of the Parliamentary Service Classification Rules; or
 (b) in relation to an APS employee or employment as an APS employee—an approved classification within the meaning of the Public Service Classification Rules 2000 as in force on 1 October 2024.
comparable classification or lower, in relation to an APS employee, has the meaning given by section 6.
debtor means a Secretary, or a Parliamentary Service employee, who owes a judgment debt.
discloser has the same meaning as in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.
eligible employee: see subsection 23(9).
employer powers, of a Secretary, means the rights, duties and powers of the Secretary under the Act and instruments (including this instrument) made under the Act.
employment means Parliamentary Service employment.
external review body does not include a court or tribunal.
higher classification, in relation to an APS employee, has the meaning given by section 7.
Independent Selection Advisory Committee or ISAC means an Independent Selection Advisory Committee established under section 102.
intelligence agency means an organisation continued in existence by:
 (a) the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979; or
 (b) section 16 or 27A of the Intelligence Services Act 2001.
ISAC: see Independent Selection Advisory Committee.
judgment debt has the same meaning as in section 67 of the Act.
medical practitioner means a person who is registered, or licensed, as a health practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of health practitioners.
net salary of a debtor means the debtor's total gross salary, less any amount to be deducted:
 (a) to pay income tax; or
 (b) to pay child support in accordance with the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989; or
 (c) as a contribution that:
 (i) the debtor is required to make to a superannuation fund relating to the debtor's appointment or engagement as a Secretary or a Parliamentary Service