New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANNUAL REPORTS (DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1985 - SECT 19

19 Reference of matters to Public Accounts Committee

(1) The Treasurer may refer any matter relating to the annual reports of Departments to the Public Accounts Committee for examination and report to the Treasurer.

(2) The Treasurer shall refer to the Public Accounts Committee for examination and report to the Treasurer any proposal to amend this Act or make a regulation, other than a proposal made by the Public Accounts Committee.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) requires the Treasurer to refer a proposal to the Public Accounts Committee if, at the time the Treasurer formulates or receives the proposal:

(a) no members have been appointed to the Committee, or

(b) the members of the Committee have ceased to hold office.

(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) prevents the Public Accounts Committee, after the Committee has reported to the Treasurer, from reporting to the Legislative Assembly on any matter referred to it by the Treasurer under subsection (1) or (2).

(5) The provisions of section 57 (4) and (5) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 apply to and in respect of a report under subsection (4) in the same way as those provisions apply to and in respect of a report in accordance with section 57 (1) of that Act.