Ability to provide other allowances and benefits
6A Ability to provide other allowances and benefits
This Act does not limit or affect the ability of the Parliament or the Crown to provide allowances and other benefits that are additional or supplementary to the awards of the Remuneration Tribunal under this
Act.
If the Parliament or the Crown offers to provide any allowance or benefit to a member of Parliament under this section and it is a condition of that offer that the member pay a contribution towards the cost of providing the allowance or benefit—
the provision of the allowance or benefit must be at the option of the member; and
the member may, despite any other provision of this Act, elect to pay the contribution by any of the following means, or by a combination of the following means:
by way of a salary sacrifice by the member;
by way of a reduction in the allowances and expenses that would otherwise be payable to the member;
by a direct payment by the member to the Treasurer.
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