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CHARTER OF BUDGET HONESTY AMENDMENT BILL 2011
2010-2011
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment
Bill 2011
No. , 2011
(Mr Hockey)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Charter of Budget
Honesty Act 1998, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule
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Schedule 1--Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998
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Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment Bill 2011 No. , 2011 1
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Charter of Budget
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Honesty Act 1998, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Charter of Budget Honesty
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Amendment Act 2011.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
The day on which Part 2 of the
Parliamentary Budget Office Act 2011
commences.
However, if Part 2 of that Act does not
commence within 24 months after the Act
receives the Royal Assent, these provisions
do not commence at all.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in Column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule
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The
Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 is amended as set out in
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Schedule 1.
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Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 Schedule 1
Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment Bill 2011 No. , 2011 3
Schedule 1--Charter of Budget Honesty Act
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1998
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1 Subclause 3(1) of Schedule 1 (definition of Leader of the
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Opposition)
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Repeal the definition.
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2 Subclause 29(1) of Schedule 1
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Repeal the subclause, substitute:
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(1) During the caretaker period for a general election the Prime
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Minister may request the responsible Secretaries to prepare
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costings of publicly announced Government policies.
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3 Subclauses 29(3) and (4) of Schedule 1
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Repeal the subclauses.
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4 Subclause 29(5) of Schedule 1
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Repeal the subclause, substitute:
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(5) The Prime Minister may, at any time, by notice in writing given to
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the responsible Secretaries, withdraw a request that he or she has
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made.
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5 Subclause 30(3) of Schedule 1
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Omit "or the Leader of the Opposition (as the case requires)".
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6 Subclause 31(1) of Schedule 1 (note 2)
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Omit "29(4)", substitute "29(5)".
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