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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1995 - SECT 16 Reports

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1995 - SECT 16

Reports

  (1)   The Minister must, as soon as practicable after 30   June in each year, cause a report or reports to be prepared about the operation of this Act in respect of the year.

Note:   The first report under this subsection will relate to the year beginning on 1   July 1995; see the definition of year in subsection   4(2).

  (2)   The Minister must ensure that relevant State Ministers and a body or bodies representative of local government are consulted in connection with the preparation of a report under subsection   ( 1).

  (3)   The report or one of the reports must include an assessment by the Minister (based on comparable national data), in relation to the year, of:

  (a)   the extent (if any) to which the allocation of funds for local government purposes has been made on a full horizontal equalisation basis as mentioned in paragraph   6(2)(a); and

  (b)   the methods used by the Local Government Grants Commissions in making their recommendations; and

  (c)   the performance by local governing bodies of their functions including:

  (i)   their efficiency; and

  (ii)   services provided by them to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

  (4)   The Minister must cause a copy of each report to be laid before each House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after the report has been prepared.