New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES ACT 1998 - SECT 15

15 Strategic plans and reports

(1) As soon as practicable after a committee is first established, it must prepare a plan of its proposed work and activities for its first 5 years (its first "5-year plan").

(2) Each year, the committee is to review its current 5-year plan and, in the light of the review, prepare a new 5-year plan.

(3) Each 5-year plan:

(a) must deal with the period of 5 years from the date on which it is prepared, and

(b) must indicate:

(i) the agricultural industry services the committee proposes to perform during that period, and

(ii) the estimated cost of performing those services, and

(iii) the rate or rates that will need to be levied in order to pay for those services, and

(c) may include indicators against which the performance of the committee may be measured.

(4) Within 6 months after a committee is first established under this Act:

(a) it must cause copies of its first 5-year plan to be sent to each of its constituents, and

(b) it must convene a special meeting of its constituents to consider the plan.

(5) As soon as practicable after a committee prepares its annual report under the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 , it must cause:

(a) copies of the report, and

(b) copies of its current 5-year plan,

to be sent to each of its constituents.