Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY AUTHORITY ACT 1984 No. 106 of 1984 - SECT 9

9. (1) The Minister may, by notice in writing delivered to the senior member,
request the Authority to consider, and prepare and give to the Minister a
report on, an automotive industry matter specified in the notice and, where
the Minister does so, the Authority shall comply with the request as soon as
it is practicable to do so.

(2) The Authority may, where it considers it appropriate to do so, consider,
and prepare and give to the Minister a report on, any automotive industry
matter.

(3) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (2), the Authority may-

   (a)  prepare and give to the Minister a report on any instance that it
        considers is an instance of failure by a person involved in the
        automotive industry to act consistently with the policies of the
        Commonwealth Government in respect of that industry; and

   (b)  where it considers it appropriate to do so, recommend to the Minister
        that the whole or part of a report referred to in paragraph (a) be
        published.

(4) Where, under this section, the Authority is required to, or may, consider,
and prepare and give to the Minister a report on, an automotive industry
matter, the Authority may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, arrange
for members of the staff referred to in sub-section 24 (1) or other persons,
to carry out research in respect of that matter and to prepare a report on
that research, and, where the Authority does so, and that report is prepared,
the Authority, for the purposes of this Act, shall be taken to have considered
that matter and may adopt that report as the report of the Authority on that
matter.