New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOBBYING OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACT 2011 - SECT 18

18 Cooling-off period for former-Ministers and former-Parliamentary Secretaries

(1) A Minister or Parliamentary Secretary who ceases to hold office as a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary must not, during the cooling-off period, engage in the lobbying of a Government official in relation to an official matter that was dealt with by the former Minister or Parliamentary Secretary in the course of carrying out portfolio responsibilities in the period of 18 months immediately before ceasing to hold office as a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.

(2) This section does not apply to the lobbying of a Government official by a former Minister or Parliamentary Secretary who is lobbying as:

(a) a member of Parliament, or

(b) a member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, or

(c) a Government official, or

(d) a Commonwealth public official.

(3) In this section, the
"cooling-off" period for a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary who ceases to hold office is the period of 18 months immediately after the Minister or Parliamentary Secretary ceases to hold office as a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary.