AUDITOR-GENERAL ACT 1997 - SECT 53 Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit may request draft estimates for Audit Office

AUDITOR-GENERAL ACT 1997 - SECT 53

  (1)   The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit may request the Auditor - General to submit to the Committee draft estimates for the Audit Office for a financial year before the annual Commonwealth budget for that financial year.

  (2)   The Auditor - General must comply with the request in time to allow the Committee to consider the draft estimates and make recommendations on them before the budget.

Note:   For the Committee's powers to consider draft estimates and make recommendations, see paragraphs 8(1)(j) and (l) of the Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951 .