Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where the Committee has made a report concerning a public work, the Committee (including the Committee as constituted at any subsequent time, whether during the same or another Parliament) may, if it resolves, before the work is commenced, that the report be reviewed, review the report and make a further report in accordance with section 17 to both Houses of the Parliament concerning the work.
(2) Without prejudice to the operation of subsection ( 7) of section 18, if the Chair notifies the Minister in writing that the Committee has resolved, in accordance with this section, that a report concerning a public work be reviewed, the work shall not be commenced unless:
(a) the Committee has resolved that it does not desire the commencement of the work to be deferred;
(b) a further report has been made by the Committee concerning the work;
(c) the House of Representatives has resolved that it is expedient that the work be commenced without awaiting the further report; or
(d) the further report has not been made before the House of Representatives expires by effluxion of time or is dissolved.