New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL LANDS PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 55

55 Performance audit of authority’s activities

(1) The Minister may request the Auditor-General to conduct a performance audit of all or any particular activities of an authority under Division 2A of Part 3 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 .

(2) The request may be made on the Minister’s own initiative or at the request of the State Council.

(3) The Auditor-General must conduct such a performance audit of all or any particular activities of an authority if requested to do so by the Minister.

(4) The Minister is to advise the authority and the State Council of the outcome of the performance audit as soon as practicable after receiving the Auditor-General’s report on it and is to forward a copy of the report to the authority and the State Council.

(5) The State Council is to advise the authority and the Minister in writing of the things done or proposed to be done by the State Council in response to the report as soon as practicable (or within such period as the Minister directs) after it receives the copy of the report.

(6) The cost of conducting a performance audit is payable by the authority concerned.

Note: The Auditor-General may surcharge directors and employees of an authority for improper expenditure. See Part 15.