Program · Outcome 1: A body of Commonwealth laws and instruments that give effect to intended policy, and that are coherent, readable and readily accessible, through the drafting and publication of those laws and instruments
Program 1.1: Legislative drafting and publication
OPC contributes to the outcome by working with government agencies to draft high quality Bills and instruments in accordance with the government’s legislative programs, ensuring that they are legally effective, and as simple to understand as possible, managing the Federal Register of Legislation, including by registering legislative instruments, preparing compilations of Commonwealth legislation, delivering legislative instruments for tabling to Parliament, and providing free access to the Australian public to all Commonwealth legislation.
Office of Parliamentary Counsel, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 7 reported
$38m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$3.5m (+9.9%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $26m | $29m | +$3.2m +12.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 185 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $8.0m | $8.3m | +$246k +3.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 186 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $802k | $803k | +$1k +0.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 187 |