(1) If the budget
papers for a financial year will not be tabled in the Legislative Assembly
before the commencement of the financial year, the Treasurer must, before the
commencement of the financial year, cause a statement setting out an estimate
of the income that will be derived during the financial year from the
investment of money standing to the credit of the FHRI Fund to be laid before
each House of Parliament.
(2) If subsection (1)
requires the Treasurer to cause a document to be laid before a House of
Parliament and the House is not sitting, the Treasurer may give the document
to the Clerk of the House.
(3) A document given
to the Clerk of a House under subsection (2) is taken to have been laid before
the House.
(4) The laying of a
document before a House that is taken to have occurred under subsection (3)
must be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the
first sitting day of the House after the Clerk receives the document.
[Section 9B inserted: No. 22 of 2020 s. 14.]
[Heading inserted: No. 22 of 2020 s. 15.]