New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANNUAL REPORTS (DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1985 - SECT 18

18 Additional information

(1) The Treasurer or the appropriate Minister may, at any time, direct a Department Head to provide, within such time, if any, as is specified in the direction, as part of the Department’s annual report or by means of a separate report, such information relating to the financial report or operations, or both, of the Department as is so specified.

(2) A Department Head shall comply with a direction given to the Department Head under subsection (1).

(3) Except in so far as the Treasurer or the appropriate Minister, as the case may require, may otherwise determine, having regard to:

(a) the confidential nature of any information provided by a Department Head in accordance with this section,

(b) the effect of the dissemination of that information on the business or commercial operations of the Department, or

(c) the circumstances of the case and the public interest,

section 13 applies to and in respect of a separate report, provided under subsection (1), of a Department in the same way as it applies to and in respect of the Department’s annual report.