Parliamentary Frameworks Legislation Amendment (Reviews) Bill 2026

✦ Plain-English Summary

# Parliamentary Frameworks Legislation Amendment (Reviews) Bill 2026

## What it does
This bill sets new timelines for reviewing three laws that govern how Parliament operates — specifically laws about parliamentary staff, parliamentary resources, and workplace support services. Instead of vague review timeframes, the bill now requires reviews to happen at fixed intervals: first as soon as possible after 22 March 2026, then every 5 years after that.

## Why it matters
Regular, scheduled reviews mean Parliament's internal systems get checked for whether they're actually working and need updating. This creates predictability and transparency rather than reviews happening whenever someone decides to do them — or not at all.

## Key details
- **First review deadline**: As soon as practicable after 22 March 2026 for all three laws
- **Ongoing schedule**: Reviews must then happen at the end of each 5-year period (so 2031, 2036, etc.)
- **What gets reviewed**: How parliamentary staff are managed, how Parliament allocates resources and spending, and whether the workplace support service for parliamentarians and staff is operating properly
- **Commencement**: Takes effect the day after receiving Royal Assent (already passed)

Official Description

Amends the: Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 , Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 and Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023 to enable the forthcoming statutory reviews of these Acts to be combined; and Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 and Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023 to align the frequency of the future periodic reviews of these Acts to allow them to be combined or conducted separately.

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Audit History

Introduced

1 Jan 2023

Last updated on APH

10 Apr 2026

Last checked by Crossbench

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