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Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998
27Responsible Minister to provide information to help prepare report
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#### 27 Responsible Minister to provide information to help prepare report
(1) To help the responsible Secretaries to prepare a pre‑election economic and fiscal outlook report, each of the responsible Ministers is to disclose to either or both of the responsible Secretaries details of any Government decision, or any other circumstance, that the Minister knows about:
(a) that has, or could have, material fiscal or economic implications; and
(b) that neither of the responsible Secretaries could reasonably be expected to know about.
(2) Disclosures are to be made within 2 days of the issue of the writ for the general election.