Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUDITOR-GENERAL ACT 1997 - SECT 15

             (1)  The Auditor‑General may at any time conduct a performance audit of an Agency.

             (2)  As soon as practicable after completing the report on the audit, the Auditor‑General must:

                     (a)  cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament; and

                     (b)  give a copy of the report to the responsible Minister; and

                     (c)  give a copy of the report to the Chief Executive of the Agency.

          (2A)  The Auditor‑General may give a copy of, or an extract from, the report to any person (including a Minister) who, or any body that, in the Auditor‑General's opinion, has a special interest in the report or the content of the extract.

             (3)  For the purposes of this section, an Agency is taken not to include any persons who are employed or engaged under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 and who are allocated to the Agency by regulations for the purposes of the definition of Agency in section 5 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 .