Parliamentary Budget Officer Act 2010
19When election policy costings to be requested
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19 When election policy costings to be requested
19 When election policy costings to be requested
(1) Election costing requests are to be made by a parliamentary leader after the operational plan prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer under section 14 has been approved by the Presiding Officers and tabled in each House of Parliament. The requests are to be made in sufficient time before the State general election to enable the parliamentary leader to comply with section 18 (1A).
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an operational plan that is approved by the Presiding Officers during a period when a House of Parliament is not sitting is taken to have been tabled if it has been provided to the Public Accounts Committee under section 15 (2).
s 19: Subst 2013 No 25, Sch 1 [15].