Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if the Parliamentary Budget Officer considers—
(a) that any of the following things has been publicly misrepresented—
(i) a policy costing;
(ii) a pre-election report;
(iii) a post-election report;
(iv) information contained in analysis, advice or a briefing provided by the Officer under section 47 (whether or not the information is publicly released under section 48); or
(b) that a policy costing prepared by someone other than the Officer has been publicly misrepresented as being prepared by the Officer; or
(c) that information that was not provided by the Officer under this Act has been publicly misrepresented as being provided by the Officer; or
(d) that the process by which the Officer has taken or not taken any action the Officer is empowered to take under this Act has been publicly misrepresented.
(2) The Parliamentary Budget Officer may publicly release a statement to correct the misrepresentation.
(3) The Parliamentary Budget Officer must not, in a statement publicly released under subsection (2), include 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 either the thing that has been publicly misrepresented or the
statement publicly released under subsection (2), 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.
Part 4—General