Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023

The Chair Commissioner must, as soon as practicable after an application for review of a decision (the original decision) is made under section 24DA, constitute a panel (the review panel) to deal with the application.

The review panel must consist of 3 Commissioners, which must not include any Commissioner who made, or was involved in making, the original decision.

The Chair Commissioner may reconstitute the review panel at any time.

The review panel may, at any time, dismiss the application if satisfied that the application:

is frivolous, vexatious, misconceived or lacking in substance or was not made in good faith; or

has no reasonable prospects of success; or

is otherwise an abuse of the process of the IPSC.

After reviewing the original decision, the review panel must make a decision (the review decision):

affirming the original decision; or

varying the original decision; or

setting aside, and making a decision in substitution for, the original decision.

If the review panel makes a review decision mentioned in paragraph (5)(b) or (c), the original decision as varied, or the decision made in substitution for the original decision, is taken to be a decision of the Commissioner or parliamentarian decision panel that made the original decision.