TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 31
Corporate plans
TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 31
Corporate plans
31 Corporate plans
(1) The State Transit Authority shall, at least 3 months before the beginning
of each financial year of the Authority, prepare and deliver to TfNSW a draft
corporate plan for the financial year.
(a) consider any comments on the draft corporate plan that were made
by TfNSW within 2 months after the draft plan was delivered to TfNSW, and
(b)
deliver the completed corporate plan to TfNSW before the beginning of the
financial year concerned.
(2A) During the preparation of a corporate plan
after the commencement of this subsection, the State Transit Authority is to
make a draft plan available for public comment for at least 30 days and is to
have regard to any submissions it receives about the draft plan within that
period. The arrangements for obtaining or inspecting the draft plan and for
making submissions are to be advertised in a daily newspaper circulating
throughout the State.
(2B) The State Transit Authority is to make the
completed corporate plan available for public inspection. However, the
Authority is not required to include in any draft or completed plan made
available for public comment or inspection information that is of a
commercially sensitive nature or that it would otherwise not be required to
disclose under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .
(3) The
State Transit Authority shall, as far as practicable, exercise its functions
in accordance with the relevant corporate plan.
(4) A corporate plan shall
specify--
(a) the separate activities of the State Transit Authority and, in
particular, the separate commercial and non-commercial activities, and
(b)
the objectives of each such separate activity for the financial year concerned
and for future financial years, and
(c) the strategies, policies and budgets
for achieving those objectives in relation to each such separate activity, and
(d) targets and criteria for assessing the Authority's performance.
(4A) A
corporate plan must specify strategies for dealing with the integration of
passenger services and passenger safety, security and conduct and any other
similar issues that TfNSW directs are to be addressed by the corporate plan.
(5) This section is subject to any requirement made by or under this Act.
