64SDuties of Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

#### 64S Duties of Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (1) The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (the Committee) has the following duties: (a) to consider work plans for the Parliamentary Budget Office prepared under section 64Q; (b) to consider draft estimates for the Parliamentary Budget Office submitted under section 64R; (c) to make recommendations to both Houses of Parliament, and to the Presiding Officers, on draft estimates referred to in paragraph (b); (d) to consider: (i) the operations of the Parliamentary Budget Office; and (ii) the resources of the Parliamentary Budget Office, including funding, staff and information technology; (e) to report to both Houses of the Parliament on any matter arising out of the Committee’s consideration of the matters referred to in paragraph (d), or on any other matter relating to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s functions and powers, that the Committee considers should be drawn to the attention of the Parliament. > Note: These duties are additional to the duties of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit under section 8 of the Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951. (2) Nothing in subsection (1) authorises the Committee to direct the activities of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.