New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 39

39 Reports

(1) In addition to its statutory annual report, the SCA must furnish reports to the Minister, for presentation to Parliament, on subjects and at times specified in the operating licence.

(2) The Minister is to lay such a report (or cause it to be laid) before both Houses of Parliament within one month after the Minister receives the report.

(3) If a House of Parliament is not sitting when the Minister seeks to furnish a report to it, the Minister may present copies of the report to the Clerk of the House concerned.

(4) The report:

(a) on presentation and for all purposes is taken to have been laid before the House, and

(b) may be printed by authority of the Clerk of the House, and

(c) if printed by authority of the Clerk, is for all purposes taken to be a document published by or under the authority of the House, and

(d) is to be recorded:

(i) in the case of the Legislative Council-in the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, and

(ii) in the case of the Legislative Assembly-in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly,

on the first sitting day of the House after receipt of the report by the Clerk.