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CHARTER OF BUDGET HONESTY ACT 1998 No. 22, 1998 - List of Sections

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CHARTER OF BUDGET HONESTY ACT 1998
No. 22, 1998
[Assented to 17 April 1998]
-An Act to provide for a Charter of Budget Honesty

1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. The Charter of Budget Honesty
Schedule 1--Charter of Budget Honesty

Part 1--Purpose and overview

1. Purpose of Charter of Budget Honesty
2. Overview of obligations
Part 2--Interpretation

3. Interpretation
Part 3--Principles of sound fiscal management

4. Formulation of Government fiscal policy
5. The principles of sound fiscal management
Part 4--Fiscal strategy statement

6. Public release and tabling of fiscal strategy statements
7. Purpose of fiscal strategy statements
8. Fiscal strategy statement to be based on principles of sound fiscal management
9. Contents of fiscal strategy statement
Part 5--Annual Government reporting

Division 1--Budget economic and fiscal outlook report

10. Public release and tabling of budget economic and fiscal outlook reports
11. Purpose of budget economic and fiscal outlook reports
12. Contents of budget economic and fiscal outlook report
13. Commonwealth bodies to provide information to help prepare report
Division 2--Mid-year economic and fiscal outlook report

14. Public release and tabling of mid-year economic and fiscal outlook reports
15. Purpose of mid-year economic and fiscal outlook reports
16. Contents of mid-year economic and fiscal outlook report
17. Commonwealth bodies to provide information to help prepare report
Division 3--Final budget outcome report

18. Public release and tabling of final budget outcome reports
19. Contents of final budget outcome report
Part 6--Intergenerational report

20. Public release and tabling of intergenerational reports
21. Contents of intergenerational report
Part 7--Pre-election economic and fiscal outlook report

22. Public release of pre-election economic and fiscal outlook report
23. Purpose of pre-election economic and fiscal outlook reports
24. Contents of pre-election economic and fiscal outlook report--economic and fiscal information
25. Contents of pre-election economic and fiscal outlook report--statements by responsible Ministers and responsible Secretaries
26. Division of responsibility between responsible Secretaries
27. Responsible Minister to provide information to help prepare report
28. Commonwealth bodies to provide information to help prepare report
Part 8--Costing of election commitments

29. Requests for costing of election commitments
30. How policy costings are to be prepared
31. Public release of policy costings
32. Commonwealth bodies to provide information to help prepare report

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