Victorian Numbered Acts

PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICER ACT 2017 (NO. 27 OF 2017)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   4.      How does the Parliamentary Budget Officer publicly release documents and information?  
   5.      Objectives of Act  

   PART 2--PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICER

           Division 1--Appointment and functions

   6.      Appointment of Parliamentary Budget Officer  
   7.      Functions of Parliamentary Budget Officer  
   8.      Independence of Parliamentary Budget Officer  
   9.      Term of office  
   10.     Remuneration, allowances and outside employment  
   11.     Vacancy and resignation  
   12.     Suspension and removal from office  
   13.     Acting Parliamentary Budget Officer  
   14.     Conflicts of interest  
   15.     Right of return—Public Administration Act 2004  
   16.     Right of return—Parliamentary Administration Act 2005  

           Division 2--Staffing and administration

   17.     Staff  
   18.     Consultants  
   19.     Confidentiality requirements for PBO officers—general  
   20.     Confidentiality requirements for PBO officers—courts, tribunals and other authorities  
   21.     Protection of PBO officers from liability  

           Division 3--Operations

   22.     Operational plan  
   23.     Transmission of operational plan to Parliament  
   24.     PBO protocols  
   25.     Arrangements for obtaining information or documents from public sector bodies  
   26.     Request for information or documents from public sector bodies  

           Division 4--Reporting requirements

   27.     Report of PBO operations during election costing periods  
   28.     Annual reports  

           Division 5--Transfer of records

   29.     Definitions  
   30.     Parliamentary Budget Officer may transfer records to Public Record Office  
   31.     Application of Public Records Act 1973 in relation to arrangements and requests for information or documents  
   32.     Transferred records not available for public inspection for 30 years  
   33.     Inspection of transferred records by Parliamentary Budget Officer  
   34.     Inspection of transferred costing records by members of Parliament  
   35.     Inspection of transferred advisory records by members of Parliament  

   PART 3--POLICY COSTINGS AND OTHER FUNCTIONS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICER

           Division 1--Election policy costings, pre-election and post-election reports

   36.     Parliamentary leader may request an election policy costing  
   37.     Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare election policy costings  
   38.     Public release of election policy costing or statement of insufficiency  
   39.     Pre-election reports on costed policies  
   40.     Public release of pre-election report or statement of insufficiency  
   41.     Post-election reports  
   42.     Nominee may act for parliamentary leader  
   43.     Functions under this Division to be prioritised above other functions  

           Division 2--Other policy costings

   44.     Requests by members of Parliament for policy costings  
   45.     Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare policy costings  
   46.     Public release of policy costing, revised costing or statement of insufficiency  

           Division 3--Advisory functions of Parliamentary Budget Officer

   47.     Advisory services to members of Parliament  
   48.     Public release of specified information  

           Division 4--Correction of errors and misrepresentations

   49.     Correction of material errors in policy costing or pre-election report  
   50.     Correction of material errors in post-election report  
   51.     Correction of material errors in specified information  
   52.     Correction of misrepresentations  

   PART 4--GENERAL

   53.     Parliamentary Budget Officer not to question the merits of policies  
   54.     Functions of the Parliamentary Committee  
   55.     Confidentiality requirements for preliminary documents  
   56.     Exemption from Freedom of Information Act 1982  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

   57.     Constitution Act 1975  
   58.     Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011  
   59.     Ombudsman Act 1973  
   60.     Parliamentary Administration Act 2005—definitions  
   61.     Parliamentary Administration Act 2005—new Division inserted in Part 3  
   62.     Parliamentary Committees Act 2003  
   63.     Repeal of Part  
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