Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) Subject to section 43, at the request of a member of Parliament, the Parliamentary Budget Officer must take all reasonable steps to provide to the member technical analysis or advice, or a briefing of a technical nature, on financial, fiscal or economic matters (including in relation to the costing of proposals included in the State budget).
(2) If the Parliamentary Budget Officer needs more information for the purpose of complying with a request under subsection (1), the Officer may request in writing the member of Parliament who made the request to provide that information in writing.
(3) If the Parliamentary Budget Officer is unable to comply with a request under subsection (1), the Officer must inform the member of Parliament who made the request of the reasons that the request cannot be complied with.
(4) In providing analysis, advice or a briefing as requested under subsection (1), the Parliamentary Budget Officer must not provide any information—
(a) referred to in section 19(2); or
(b) contained in a document referred to in section 19(2); or
(c) contained in a financial report or budget update that has been prepared, but not yet released, under Part 5 of the Financial Management Act 1994 ; or
(d) that is an excerpt from information or a document that a public sector body Head advised, under section 25(4) or 26(5), is subject to Cabinet confidentiality; or
(e) that states or implies that, in preparing the analysis, advice or briefing, the Parliamentary Budget Officer used either an exempt document under section 28 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 or information that, if it were in the form of a document, would be an exempt document under that provision.
(5) The functions of the Parliamentary Budget Officer under this section do not extend to—
(a) providing any analysis, advice or briefing to assist a committee of Parliament; or
(b) developing policy proposals on behalf of members of Parliament.