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Parliamentary Service Act 1999
64KCaretaker period policy costing requests—interaction with the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998
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#### 64K Caretaker period policy costing requests—interaction with the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998
If a request is made under subsection 64J(2) for the costing of a policy of a Parliamentary party (the first policy), the Parliamentary Budget Officer:
(a) must ask the responsible Secretaries whether a request has been made under clause 29 of Schedule 1 to the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 in relation to a policy of the Parliamentary party that is the same as, or substantially similar to, the first policy; and
(b) if a request has been made under clause 29 of that Schedule—must not prepare a costing of the first policy under this Act.