New South Wales Consolidated Acts

YEAR 2000 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT 1999 - SECT 15

15 Quarterly reports concerning State agencies

(1) The Minister must cause a report to be prepared as to the progress of State agencies in detecting, preventing and remedying problems relating to Year 2000 processing, as at 1 September 1999, and must furnish the report to the Presiding Officer of each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after that date and, in any case, on or before 15 September 1999.

(2) The Minister must cause a further report to be prepared as to the progress of State agencies in detecting, preventing and remedying problems relating to Year 2000 processing, as at 1 December 1999, and must furnish the report to the Presiding Officer of each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after that date and, in any case, on or before 15 December 1999.

(3) A copy of a report furnished to the Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament under this section:

(a) is to be made public immediately, and

(b) is to be laid before that House within 15 sitting days after it is received by the Presiding Officer.

(4) If such a report is made public by a Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament before it is laid before that House, it attracts the same privileges and immunities as if it had been laid before that House.

(5) In this section, "State agency" means:

(a) a public or local authority constituted by or under an Act, or

(b) a Government Department, or

(c) a statutory body representing the Crown,

(d) a State owned corporation (including any subsidiary of a State owned corporation) within the meaning of the State Owned Corporations Act 1989 .