PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICER ACT 2010 - As at 8 June 2022 - Act 83 of 2010

Table of Provisions

• 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 (Repealed)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 budget update statement
• 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 (Repealed) Schedule 1 (Repealed)