Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUDIT AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 8 of 1979 - SECT 5

5. After section 2A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in
Part I: Responsibilities of Permanent Heads
''2AB. (1) The Permanent Head of a Department is responsible for making
appropriate arrangements for implementing the provisions of this Act, the
regulations and any directions given under this Act or under the regulations
in relation to the Department.

''(2) In sub-section (1)-

'Department' means-

   (a)  a Department of State;

   (b)  a Department of the Parliament; or

   (c)  a branch or part of the Australian Public Service in relation to which
        a person has, under an Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, the
        Permanent Head of a Department of the Australian Public Service;

'Permanent Head' means-

   (a)  in relation to a Department of State or a Department of the
        Parliament-the person who, under the Public Service Act 1922, holds,
        or is performing the duties of, the office of Permanent Head of that
        Department; or

   (b)  in relation to a branch or part of the Australian Public Service
        referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of 'Department' in this
        sub-section-the person who has the powers of, or exercisable by, the
        Permanent Head of a Department of the Australian Public Service so far
        as those powers relate to that branch or part of that Service.''.