Summary of Returns June 2012
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REGISTER OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS SUMMARY OF RETURNS ─ JUNE 2012 AND SUMMARY OF A VARIATION NOTIFIED BETWEEN 21 JUNE 2012 AND 5 OCTOBER 2012 AND SUMMARY OF PRIMARY RETURN – SEPTEMBER 2012 Presented to both Houses of Parliament pursuant to section 7(4) of the Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Act 1978 (No. 9223) Ordered to be printed Parliamentary Paper No. 176 Session 2010-12 1 2 INTRODUCTION Section 5(3) of the Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Act 1978 (No. 9223) states: Every Member shall on the 30th day of June in each year or within 60 days thereafter submit to the Clerk of the Parliaments an ordinary return. By section 7(4), a summary of the information contained in the returns is to be prepared and laid before each House of Parliament. The ordinary return envisaged by section 5(3) is prescribed by the Second Schedule to the Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Regulations 2003 (Statutory Rule No. 14/2003). Those regulations specify classifications under which Members are required to give details of their interests, at the same time providing that information already disclosed in a previous return, if still accurate, is not required to be repeated. The classifications are: The income source (1) of any financial benefit (2) which you received or were entitled to receive during any part of the return period (3). The name of any company or other body in which you held an office as director or otherwise during the return period (3). The name or description of any company, partnership, association or other body in which you hold a beneficial interest exceeding $500 in value. The name of any political party, body or association or trade or professional organisation of which you are or have been a member during the return period (3). A concise description of any trust in which you hold a beneficial interest. A concise description of any trust of which you are trustee and in which a member of your family holds a beneficial interest. The address or description of any land in which you hold a beneficial interest (other than by way of security for a debt). The source of any significant contribution in cash or kind to travel beyond Victoria undertaken by you during the return period (3) (but not including contributions by the State or a public statutory corporation constituted under a law of the State). Any gift of or exceeding $500 received by you from a person other than a relative by blood or marriage. Any other substantial interest (whether of a pecuniary nature or not) held by you or a member of your family of which you are aware and which you consider might appear to raise a material conflict with your public duty as a Member. 3 NOTES: (1) "Income source" means ─ (a) any person or body of persons with whom a Member entered into a contract of service or held any paid office; or (b) any trade vocation or profession engaged in by a Member. (2) "Financial benefit" means ─ (a) the remuneration, fee or other pecuniary sum exceeding $500 received by the Member in respect of any contract of service entered into or paid office held by the Member; and (b) the total of all remuneration, fees or other pecuniary sums received by the Member in respect of any trade, profession or vocation engaged in by the Member where the said total exceeds $500 ─ but shall not include any remuneration received by the Member under the Parliamentary Salaries and Superannuation Act 1968. (3) "Return period" in relation to an ordinary return of a Member means ─ (a) in the case of a Member whose last return was a primary return, the period between the date of the primary return and the 30th day of June next following; and (b) in the case of any other Member, the period between the date of his last ordinary return and the 30th day of June next following. In the summary that follows, those categories are represented by the following abbreviated headings: Income source Office held Company beneficial interest Party, body or association Trust beneficial interest Trusteeship Land beneficial interest Travel contribution Gift exceeding $500 Other substantial interest 4 This summary reports variations only to material held on the Register. No reference is made in the following entries to individual headings under which a Member has had nothing further to register; neither is information contained in a previous return repeated, if it is still accurate. (A separate Cumulative Summary giving a catalogue of all current interests registered by each Member of the 57th Parliament will be presented to the Parliament in October 2013). Ms Colleen Hartland, MLC, lodged her Ordinary Return outside the required prescribed period. In addition to the requirement to submit an Ordinary Return, section 6(4) of the Act also allows for notification of variations to the Register to be submitted at any time. This document also includes details of a variation notified under that section by a Member between 21 June 2012 and 5 October 2012. Further, section 5(2) of the Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Act 1978 (No. 9223) states: Every Member who was not a Member of either the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council in the Parliament then last past shall, upon taking and subscribing the oath or affirmation as a Member, within 30 days thereafter submit to the Clerk of the Parliaments a primary return. The primary return required by section 5(2) was prescribed by Schedule 1 to the Members of Parliament (Register of Interests) Regulations 2003 (Statutory Rule No. 14/2003). Those regulations require Members to register their interests by providing information under the following specific classifications: 1. The income source which you have or expect to have in the next 12 months after the date of this return. 2. The name of any company or other body in which you hold an office as director or otherwise at the date of this return. 3. The name or description of any company, partnership, association or other body in which you hold a beneficial interest exceeding $500 in value. 4. The name of any political party, body or association or trade or professional organization of which you are a member at the date of this return. 5. A concise description of any trust in which you hold a beneficial interest. 6. A concise description of any trust of which you are trustee and in which a member of your family holds a beneficial interest. 7. The address or description of any land in which you hold a beneficial interest (other than by way of security for a debt). 8. Any other substantial interest (whether of a pecuniary nature or not) held by you or a member of your family of which you are aware and which you consider might appear to raise a material conflict with your public duty as a Member. 5 For convenience, the summary has been divided into the following Parts: Part A ─ Members of the Legislative Council who notified that no alteration was required to information currently recorded in the Register ─ June 2012 Part B ─ Members of the Legislative Assembly who notified that no alteration was required to information currently recorded in the Register ─ June 2012 Part C ─ Summary of variations to Register notified by Members of the Legislative Council ─ June 2012 Part D ─ Summary of variations to Register notified by Members of the Legislative Assembly ─ June 2012 Part E ─ Summary of a variation to Register notified by a Member of the Legislative Assembly between 21 June 2012 and 5 October 2012 Part F ─ Summary of interests registered by a Member, not having been a Member of the Parliament last past, who took and subscribed the oath or affirmation as a Member on 14 August 2012 Clerk of the Parliaments 6 SUMMARY OF RETURNS PART A ─ Members of the Legislative Council who notified that no alteration was required to information currently recorded in the Register ─ June 2012 ATKINSON, Bruce Norman (Eastern Metropolitan Region) BROAD, Candy Celeste (Northern Victoria Region) COOTE, Andrea (Southern Metropolitan Region) EIDEH, Khalil (Western Metropolitan Region) ELASMAR, Nazih Halim (Northern Metropolitan Region) GUY, Matthew Jason (Northern Metropolitan Region) HALL, Peter Ronald (Eastern Victoria Region) LENDERS, John (Southern Metropolitan Region) PAKULA, Martin Philip (Western Metropolitan Region) PULFORD, Jaala Lee (Western Victoria Region) SCHEFFER, Johan Emiel (Eastern Victoria Region) SOMYUREK, Adem Kubilay (South Eastern Metropolitan Region) TEE, Brian Lennox (Eastern Metropolitan Region) TIERNEY, Gayle (Western Victoria Region) VINEY, Matthew Shaw (Eastern Victoria Region) 7 8 PART B ─ Members of the Legislative Assembly who notified that no alteration was required to information currently recorded in the Register ─ June 2012 ALLAN, Jacinta Marie (Bendigo East) ANGUS, Neil Andrew Warwick (Forest Hill) BAUER, Donna Jane (Carrum) BEATTIE, Elizabeth Jean (Yuroke) BLACKWOOD, Gary John (Narracan) HALFPENNY, Bronwyn (Thomastown) HELPER, Jochen (Ripon) HOWARD, Geoffrey Kemp (Ballarat East) HUTCHINS, Natalie Maree Sykes (Keilor) MERLINO, James Anthony (Monbulk) MILLER, Elizabeth Eileen (Bentleigh) NEVILLE, Lisa Mary (Bellarine) NORTHE, Russell John (Morwell) PERERA, Jude (Cranbourne) RYALL, Deanne Sharon (Mitcham) THOMPSON, Murray Hamilton (Sandringham) TREZISE, Ian Douglas (Geelong) WAKELING, Nicholas (Ferntree Gully) WYNNE, Richard William (Richmond) 9 10 PART C ─ Summary of variations to Register notified by Members of the Legislative Council ─ June 2012 BARBER, Gregory John (Northern Metropolitan Region) Gift exceeding $500 Add ─ Donations to assist