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.