New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 126

126 Director-General may enter into performance agreement with a public health organisation

(1) The Director-General may enter into a performance agreement with any public health organisation.

(2) A performance agreement may:

(a) include the provisions of a service agreement (within the meaning of the NHHN Agreement) for the organisation, and

(b) set operational performance targets for the organisation in the exercise of specified functions during a specified period, and

(c) provide for the evaluation and review of results in relation to those targets, and

(d) provide for the provision of such data or other information by a public health organisation concerning the exercise of its functions that the State determines is required to comply with the State’s performance reporting obligations under the NHHN Agreement.

(3) The public health organisation must, as far as practicable, exercise its functions in accordance with the performance agreement.

(4) The public health organisation is to report the results of the organisation’s performance under a performance agreement during a financial year to the Director-General within 3 months of the end of that year.

(5) The Director-General:

(a) is to evaluate and review the results of the organisation’s performance for each financial year under the performance agreement and to report those results to the Minister, and

(b) may make such recommendations to the Minister concerning those results as the Director-General thinks fit.