Directions and Specifications for Services and Funding Entitlements for the House of Representatives, its Members, Former Members, and Certain Electoral Candidates 2008 Amendment Directions (No 2) 2009

These directions, which come into force on 22 October 2009, further amend the directions of the Speaker of the House of Representatives set out in the document entitled Directions and Specifications for Services and Funding Entitlements for the House of Representatives, its Members, Former Members, and Certain Electoral Candidates 2008, signed on 28 October 2008.

Their effect is to disqualify a former member of Parliament, and any spouse or partner of a former member, from receiving ongoing travel entitlements available to former members under Part 6 of the directions if:

• the former member has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term of 2 years or more or a corrupt practice within the meaning of the Electoral Act 1993, or has been reported by the High Court in its report on the trial of an election petition to have been proved guilty of a corrupt practice; and
• that crime or corrupt practice was committed while the former member was a member of Parliament.

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