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(d) inappropriately delegate legislative powers; or
(e) insufficiently subject the exercise of legislative power to parliamentary scrutiny.
(4) The Committee shall consist of three members.
(5) If the Assembly is not sitting when the Committee is ready to report on bills and subordinate legislation, the Committee may send its report to the Speaker, or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation.
(6) The majority of members constitutes a quorum of the Committee.
(7) The Committee be provided with the necessary additional staff, facilities and resources.
(8) The foregoing provisions of this resolution, so far as they are inconsistent with the standing orders, have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
3. That:
(1) A Standing Committee on Public Accounts be appointed to:
(a) examine:
(i) the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Australian Capital Territory;
(ii) the financial affairs of authorities of the Australian Capital Territory; and
(iii) all reports of the Auditor-General which have been laid before the Assembly;
(b) report to the Assembly, with such comments as it thinks fit, any items or matters in those accounts, statements and reports, or any circumstances connected with them, to which the Committee is of the opinion that the attention of the Assembly should be directed; and
(c) inquire into any question in connection with the public accounts which is referred to it by the Assembly and report to the Assembly on that question.
(2) The Committee shall consist of three members.
(3) The Committee shall have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts appointed during the previous Assembly.
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