14Operational plan

14 Operational plan

14 Operational plan

(1) The Parliamentary Budget Officer must prepare an operational plan that includes the following—

(a) the objectives of the Officer in exercising his or her functions and a broad outline of the strategies of the Officer to achieve those objectives,

(b) a schedule of the activities that the Officer proposes to undertake.

(2) The operational plan must be prepared as soon as practicable after the appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

(3) The Parliamentary Budget Officer must provide a draft of the operational plan to the Presiding Officers not later than 1 month after the appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

(4) The Presiding Officers are to approve the draft plan or request the Parliamentary Budget Officer to make changes to the draft plan and submit the revised plan to the Presiding Officers for approval.

(5) The Parliamentary Budget Officer may, with the approval of the Presiding Officers, vary an approved operational plan at any time.

(6) The approved operational plan, and any approved variation of the plan, are required to be tabled in each House of Parliament by the Presiding Officer of that House.

(7) The Parliamentary Budget Officer must take the operational plan into account in the exercise of his or her functions.

s 14: Am 2013 No 25, Sch 1 [9]; 2018 No 52, Sch 1 [3].