Meanings of Behaviour Code and Code commencement day
24AC Meanings of Behaviour Code and Code commencement day
Each of the following is a Behaviour Code:
a determination, under subsection 13(2) of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984, that a MOPS employee must comply with a code or standard of behaviour (other than the Ministerial Staff Code of Conduct) as a term and condition of employment, as in force from time to time;
a code or standard of behaviour for persons in Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces that is approved, from time to time, by a resolution of both Houses of the Parliament.
The Code commencement day is the first day on which both of the following are in force:
a determination mentioned in paragraph (1)(a);
a code or standard mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).
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