Footnotes

Chapter 1

[1]        Votes and Proceedings, No. 86 – 26 November 2014, p. 1001.

[2]        Votes and Proceedings, No. 86 – 26 November 2014, p. 1002.

[3]        Journals of the Senate, No. 70 – 27 November 2014, pp 1898-1899.

[4]        Journals of the Senate, No. 74 – 4 December 2014, p. 1986.

[5]        Paragraph 65A(5) of the Act.

[6]        Paragraph 65A(2) of the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 (Act). Instead of the Secretary of DPS, an SES employee of the Department of Parliamentary Services nominated by the Presiding Officers in writing may be a member of the SMB.

[7]        Clerk of the Senate, Submission 2, p. 2. The submission also notes that for a brief period in 2012-2013 the Parliamentary Budget Office was also a statutory member of the Board.

[8]        Paragraph 64A(4) of the Act.

[9]        Submission 2, p. 2.

[10]      Paragraph 65A(3) of the Act.

[11]      Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 3.

[12]      EM, p. 3.

[13]      Submission 2, p. 1.

[14]      Submission 2, p. 1, quoting from Parliament House – Security Matters – Statement by the President: SD, 11/11/2002, pp 5817-5818.

[15]      Submission 2, pp 6-7.

[16]      Submission 2, p. 5.

[17]      Submission 2, pp 3-4.

[18]      Submission 2, p. 4.

[19]      Submission 1, p. [3].

[20]      Submission 2, p. 5.

[21]      Submission 1, p. [3].

[22]      Submission 2, p. 5, emphasis in original.