Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ELECTION COMMITMENTS COSTING ACT 2012 (NO. 47 OF 2012) - SECT 10

    (1)     If the director-general receives a costing request on or after polling day, and the request is not withdrawn under section 6, the director-general must—

        (a)     cost the election commitment; and

        (b)     make the costing publicly available.

Examples—publicly available

1     published on the Treasury Directorate website

2     media release issued by the Treasury Directorate

Note     An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).

    (2)     The director-general must cost an election commitment and make the costing publicly available—

        (a)     as soon as practicable after receiving the costing request; and

        (b)     before the end of the costing period.

    (3)     However, before making a costing publicly available, the director-general must give a copy of the costing to the person who made the costing request.

    (4)     Also, if the director-general does not have adequate information or enough time to cost an election commitment and make the costing publicly available before the end of the costing period, the director-general must, before the end of the costing period, make publicly available a notice stating—

        (a)     that the election commitment cannot be costed before the end of the costing period; and

        (b)     the reason why.

    (5)     A costing request made on or after polling day that has not been costed and made publicly available before the end of the costing period is taken to be withdrawn at the end of the costing period.

    (6)     If an election commitment under a costing request made on or after polling day has not been costed before the end of the costing period, the director-general must not begin or continue costing the election commitment after the end of the costing period.