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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT 2006 - SECT 65

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT 2006 - SECT 65

65 .         Minister to inform Parliament if annual report and Auditor General’s opinion cannot be tabled on time

        (1)         If the Minister is not able to cause a copy of an annual report and if applicable, the opinion of the Auditor General referred to in section 64(1) to be laid before each House of Parliament, or dealt with under section 83, within the prescribed period after the end of a financial year of an agency, the Minister is to inform both Houses of Parliament, on or before the expiry of that period, of —

            (a)         the Minister’s inability to do so; and

            (b)         the reasons for that inability; and

            (c)         the anticipated date on which those documents will be tabled.

        (2)         If the Minister is not able to comply with subsection (1) in respect of a House of Parliament because that House is not then sitting, the Minister is to inform that House as required by that subsection as soon as is practicable after the expiry of the prescribed period.

        (3)         In this section —

        prescribed period means the prescribed period referred to in section 64.