Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) In this Act—
Annual Appropriation Bill has the meaning given in section 65(1) of the Constitution Act 1975 ;
"annual report" means a report prepared under section 28(1) ;
"business day" means, in relation to a place in which an act or thing is to be done, a day other than—
(a) a Saturday or Sunday; or
(b) a day appointed under the Public Holidays Act 1993 as a public holiday in that place;
"confidential commercial information", in relation to a public sector body, means information acquired by the public sector body from a business, commercial or financial undertaking that relates to matters of a business, commercial or financial nature, the disclosure of which would be likely to expose the undertaking unreasonably to disadvantage;
"election costing period" means—
(a) the period beginning on the moving of the second reading of the Annual Appropriation Bill in an election year and ending at 5 p.m. on the Thursday immediately preceding the date of the general election in that year; or
(b) if, before the moving of the second reading of the Annual Appropriation Bill in an election year, the Legislative Assembly is dissolved in accordance with section 8A of the Constitution Act 1975 or in accordance with advice given under section 65E(2) of that Act, the period beginning on that dissolution and ending at 5 p.m. on the Thursday immediately preceding the resulting general election;
"election policy costing" means a costing prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer under section 37;
"election policy costing request" means a request submitted under section 36 to the Parliamentary Budget Officer for the preparation of an election policy costing;
"election year" means a calendar year in which a general election is scheduled to be held as determined under section 38A(1)(a) of the Constitution Act 1975 ;
"general election" has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Electoral Act 2002 ;
"material"—see subsection (2);
"Parliamentary Budget Office" means the Parliamentary Budget Office established by section 17A of the Parliamentary Administration Act 2005 ;
"Parliamentary Budget Officer" means the person appointed under section 6;
"Parliamentary Committee" means the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee established by section 5(h) of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 ;
"parliamentary leader" means any of the following—
(a) the Premier;
(b) the Leader of the Opposition;
(c) a member of Parliament who is the recognised parliamentary leader of a registered political party (other than a party, and any coalition party, whose parliamentary leader is the Premier or the Leader of the Opposition);
(d) a member of Parliament who—
(i) is not a member of a registered political party that has a recognised parliamentary leader; and
(ii) has not publicly stated an intention not to contest the next general election;
"PBO officer" means—
(a) the Parliamentary Budget Officer; or
(b) a member of staff referred to in section 17; or
(c) a consultant referred to in section 18;
"PBO protocols" means protocols prepared under section 24 ;
"policy costing" means—
(a) an election policy costing; or
(b) a policy costing prepared under section 45;
"pre-election report" means a report prepared under section 39 ;
"protected information" means information acquired by reason of, or in the course of, the performance of duties or exercise of powers under this Act;
"post-election report" means a report prepared under section 41 ;
"public sector body" means a public sector body within the meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004 other than VCAT;
"public sector body Head" has the same meaning as in the Public Administration Act 2004 ;
"registered political party" means a political party within the meaning of the Electoral Act 2002 that is registered under Part 4 of that Act;
"report of PBO operations" means a report prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer under section 27(1).
(2) If this Act refers to something as material, its materiality is to be determined in accordance with the Parliamentary Budget Officer's best professional judgment.
(3) A reference in this Act to a member of Parliament includes, during the period that the Legislative Assembly has expired or is dissolved, a reference to a person who was a member of Parliament immediately before that expiry or dissolution.