17Confidentiality of information or documents relating to election policy costings

17 Confidentiality of information or documents relating to election policy costings

17 Confidentiality of information or documents relating to election policy costings

(1) This section applies to any of the following information and documents—

(a) information or documents provided to the Parliamentary Budget Officer by a parliamentary leader (or on his or her behalf) for the purposes of an election policy costing under Part 4,

(b) (Repealed)

(c) information or documents prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer for the purposes of any such costing.

(2) The Parliamentary Budget Officer, or any member of staff of the Parliamentary Budget Office, must not disclose any such information or document except—

(a) in the case of an election costing request by a parliamentary leader—to that leader, or

(b) (Repealed)

(c) in any case—to another member of staff of the Parliamentary Budget Office.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) This section does not apply to any information or document—

(a) if the information or document relates to an election policy costing or election costing request that the Parliamentary Budget Officer is authorised or required to publicly release by this Act, or

(b) if the information or document has already been lawfully published, or

(c) if the person disclosing the information or document became aware of the information or obtained the document otherwise than in the course of an election policy costing under this Act.

s 17: Am 2013 No 25, Sch 1 [12] [13].