ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 213 Final report and financial statement for old Department

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 213

213. (1) As soon as practicable after the commencement the Chief Executive
Officer shall:

   (a)  prepare and give to the Minister a report on the operations of the old
Department during the period (in this section called the "pre-commencement
period") commencing on 1 July 1989 and ending at the commencement; and

   (b)  prepare and give to the Auditor-General a financial statement that
        relates to the old Department during the pre-commencement period and
        that satisfies the requirements of section 50 of the Audit Act 1901 as
        that section applies in relation to the financial year that commenced
        on 1 July 1989.

(2) The Chief Executive Officer may, in discharging his or her obligations
under subsection (1), rely on accounts and records of the old Department that
are in the possession of the new Commission or to which the Chief Executive
Officer is allowed access and on any other information provided to the Chief
Executive Officer by any person who held an office, or was employed, in the
old Department.

(3) A report prepared and given to the Minister in accordance with paragraph
(1) (a) shall, for the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922, be taken to
have been prepared and given to the Minister under subsection 25 (6) of that
Act.

(4) A financial statement prepared and given to the Auditor-General in
accordance with paragraph (1) (b) shall, for the purposes of the Audit Act 
1901 , be taken to have been prepared and given to the Auditor-General under
section 50 of that Act as that section applies in relation to the financial
year that commenced on 1 July 1989.

(5) The Auditor-General may, in discharging his or her obligations under
section 50 of the Audit Act 1901 as it applies because of subsection (4), rely
on accounts and records of the old Department that are in the possession of
the new Commission or to which the Chief Executive Officer is allowed access
and on any other information provided to the Chief Executive Officer by any
person who held an office, or was employed, in the old Department.