Long title

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act

2 Commencement

3 Definitions

4 Presiding Officers

Part 2 Parliamentary Budget Officer

5 Establishment of position of Parliamentary Budget Officer

6 Appointment of Parliamentary Budget Officer

7 Term of office of Parliamentary Budget Officer

8 Acting Parliamentary Budget Officer

9 Vacancy in office of Parliamentary Budget Officer

10 Remuneration of Parliamentary Budget Officer

11 Employment of staff and consultants—Parliamentary Budget Office

Part 3 Functions

12 Functions relating to costings of election promises

13 (Repealed)

14 Operational plan

15 Role of Public Accounts Committee

16 Parliamentary Budget Officer to have access to Government agencies

17 Confidentiality of information or documents relating to election policy costings

Part 4 Election policy costings

Division 1 Requests for election policy costings

18 Request for election policy costings by parliamentary leaders

19 When election policy costings to be requested

20 Withdrawal of election costing requests

Division 2 Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare costings of election policies

21 Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare costings of election policies

22 Public release of election policy costings

23 Budget impact statements for all costed policies

Division 3 General election costing provisions

24 Pre-election statement of uncommitted State funds

25 Parliamentary Budget Officer guidelines

26 Revision of election policy costings and budget impact statements to correct any errors

27 Nominee may act for parliamentary leader

Part 5 Miscellaneous

28 Nature of proceedings for offences

29 Regulations

30 Review of Act

31 (Repealed)

 Schedule 1 (Repealed)

Historical notes