Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A member of Parliament may, in accordance with the PBO protocols, request the Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare a costing of a policy or a proposed policy.
(2) The member of Parliament may include in the request any information that the member thinks relevant to assist the Parliamentary Budget Officer to prepare a costing of the policy.
(3) A member of Parliament, by giving written notice to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, may withdraw a request for a policy costing at any time before the Officer publicly releases the policy costing.
(4) After receiving a notice under subsection (3), the Parliamentary Budget Officer—
(a) is to stop preparing the policy costing; and
(b) must as soon as practicable inform any entity (other than the member of Parliament who requested the policy costing) that the Officer requested to provide information or a document relevant to the request that the information or document is no longer required.
(5) Subsection (4)(b) does not apply if the information or document is also relevant to another current request for a policy costing.