Senate Sessional Allowance (Suspension) Regulations (SOR/98-126)

General

• 1 (1) If the Senate suspends a member, there shall be deducted from the member’s sessional allowance for the period of suspension the amount otherwise payable after deductions required by any Act of Parliament.

• (2) If the conviction of a member who was suspended because of a conviction of a criminal offence in proceedings by indictment is overturned on appeal, there shall be paid to the member the total of all amounts deducted under subsection (1) as a result of the suspension.

• (3) The amount payable under subsection (2) is payable without interest and without regard to any duty of the member to mitigate.

Coming into Force

2 These Regulations come into force on February 19, 1998.