PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 64U Public release of policy costings etc.
PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 64U
Public release of policy costings etc.The Parliamentary Budget Officer must, subject to section 64V, ensure that the following information and documents are made publicly available:
(a) policy costing requests made under section 64H or 64J, and the policy costings prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer in response to those requests;
(b) any withdrawals of policy costing requests made under section 64H or 64J;
(c) requests relating to the budget referred to in paragraph 64E(1)(c), and the responses to those requests prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer;
(d) requests by Parliamentary committees referred to in paragraph 64E(1)(d), and the responses to those requests prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer;
(e) the results of any other work done in the performance of the functions of the Parliamentary Budget Officer under subsection 64E(1).
(a) subsections 64L(2) and 64LA(2), which require policy costings prepared during a caretaker period for a general election to be publicly released; and
(b) section 64MC, which requires a post - election report
prepared under section 64MA to be publicly released.