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Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998
6Public release and tabling of fiscal strategy statements
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#### 6 Public release and tabling of fiscal strategy statements
(1) The Treasurer is to publicly release and table the first fiscal strategy statement for a particular Government at or before the time of the Government’s first budget.
(2) The Treasurer is to publicly release and table a fiscal strategy statement for the Government at the time of each of the Government’s subsequent budgets.
(3) If the Government wants to change its fiscal strategy statement, it may do so at any time by the Treasurer publicly releasing and tabling a new fiscal strategy statement.
(4) If a House of the Parliament is not sitting when a fiscal strategy statement is publicly released:
(a) the statement still takes effect from its public release; and
(b) the Treasurer is to table the statement in that House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after it next sits.