Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 2001 - SECT 46

             (1)  The CEO must, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare and give to the Minister a report of the operations of the ARC during the year that ended on that 30 June. The report must also deal with:

                     (a)  any matters required by other provisions of this Act to be dealt with in the report; and

                     (b)  any other matters that the Minister, by notice in writing to the CEO, requires to be dealt with in the report.

Note:          Other provisions of this Act that require matters to be dealt with in the report are subsection 33C(3) and section 45.

             (2)  The report must be prepared in accordance with the guidelines referred to in subsection 63(2) of the Public Service Act 1999 (as if the report were a report to which those guidelines applied).

             (3)  The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Minister receives the report.