Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017

The main objects of this Act are to recognise the following:

that members should be remunerated, and provided with resources, for being a member;

that members should be able to use public resources for reasonable costs incurred for the dominant purpose of conducting parliamentary business;

that members have obligations in relation to the use of those public resources.

The other objects of this Act are to ensure that:

on retirement, former members are provided with limited resources to facilitate their ceasing to be a member; and

if a person dies while a member, the person’s estate may be paid an allowance in recognition that the resources mentioned in paragraph (a) will not be provided; and

reasonable resources are provided to former Prime Ministers to support their continuing contribution to public life beyond their parliamentary service.