Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Parliamentary Budget Officer must comply with this section in preparing the post - election report for a general election required by subsection 64MA(1).
(2) The Parliamentary Budget Officer may, but is not required to, take account of any comments given to the Parliamentary Budget Officer under subsection 64MA(8).
(3) The post - election report must:
(a) set out any comments given to the Parliamentary Budget Officer by a designated Parliamentary party under subsection 64MA(8); and
(b) if a designated Parliamentary party did not give the Parliamentary Budget Officer any comments under that subsection--include a statement to that effect.
(4) The post - election report:
(a) must not include costings of election commitments other than:
(i) those in the list prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Officer under subsection 64MA(5); and
(ii) those referred to in any comments given to the Parliamentary Budget Officer under subsection 64MA(8); and
(b) in relation to each election commitment for which a costing is included in the report:
(i) must include an explanation of the reason the Parliamentary Budget Officer decided that the commitment was an election commitment (as defined in section 7) and that a costing of the election commitment should be included in the report; and
(ii) must state the source (or sources) of information from which the Parliamentary Budget Officer identified the election commitment.
(5) The post - election report does not have to include information that the Parliamentary Budget Officer considers should not be included because:
(a) it is confidential commercial information; or
(b) its disclosure in the report could prejudice national security.
Note: The post - election report must not include any information given to the Parliamentary Budget Officer by the Head of a Commonwealth body under subsection 64MB(4), if the Head requested that the information be kept confidential under subsection 64MB(5) (see subsection 64V(4A)).
(6) If the Parliamentary Budget Officer does not have sufficient information, or has not had sufficient time, to assess the cost of any election commitment, the Parliamentary Budget Officer may reflect this in the post - election report.