PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION ACT 1998 - SECT 10 Annual report

PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION ACT 1998 - SECT 10

  (1)   The annual report prepared by the Chair and given to the Minister under section   46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 for a period must:

  (a)   report on matters relating to industry, industry development and productivity that have been referred to it during the period; and

  (b)   report on the number of complaints, received by the Commission during the period, about the competitive neutrality of government businesses and business activities, and the outcomes of the Commission's investigations into those complaints; and

  (c)   as far as practicable, report on assistance and regulations affecting industry and the effect of such assistance and regulations on industry and on the economy as a whole.

  (2)   The report may also report on industry and productivity performance generally.

  (3)   In this section:

"assistance" includes any act that, directly or indirectly:

  (a)   assists a person to carry on a business or activity; or

  (b)   confers a pecuniary benefit on, or results in a pecuniary benefit accruing to, a person in respect of carrying on a business or activity.