New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PORTS AND MARITIME ADMINISTRATION ACT 1995 - SECT 39

39 Corporate plan

(1) The Authority is required to prepare and deliver to the Minister, at least 3 months before the beginning of each financial year of the Authority, a draft corporate plan for the financial year.

(2) The Authority:

(a) must consider any comments on the draft corporate plan that are made by the Minister within 2 months after the plan is delivered to the Minister, and

(b) must deliver the completed corporate plan to the Minister before the beginning of the financial year concerned.

(3) The Authority is, as far as practicable, to exercise its functions in accordance with the relevant corporate plan.

(4) A corporate plan must specify:

(a) the objectives of the activities of the Authority for the financial year concerned and for such future financial years as the Minister directs, and

(b) the strategies, policies and budgets for achieving those objectives, and

(c) targets and criteria for assessing the performance of the Authority.

(5) This section is subject to the requirements of any law, including the requirements of a direction of the Minister under this Act.