Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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 .