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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (27 March) . . Page.. 719 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

Mr Speaker, the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 1995 requires the issuing of a number of instruments specifying annual reporting requirements. These are non-disallowable instruments. I am tabling the following instruments which I have made under the designated sections of the legislation:

Section 4 - specifies public authorities for the purposes of the Act;

Section 5 - specifies the administrative unit which a public authority is responsible for reporting to;

Paragraph 6(2)(b) - specifies information for inclusion in the Commissioner for Public Administration's annual report;

Subsection 7(2) - specifies the form of and information to be included in chief executives' annual reports, as per the Chief Minister's Annual Reports Directions for 1995-96;

Subsections 8(2), (5), (6) and (7) - specifies the form of and information to be included in public authorities' annual reports, or information to be provided for inclusion in chief executives' annual reports, as per the Chief Minister's Annual Reports Directions for 1995-96;

Section 10 - directs that a public authority present a report in other than a financial year reporting period. This applies to the Canberra Institute of Technology, which reports on a calendar year basis; and

Subsection 11(1) - specifies the date for lodging of annual reports, or provision of information, for inclusion in chief executives' annual reports, by public authorities.

The Act requires that all annual reports be presented to the relevant Minister within 10 weeks after the end of the specified reporting period. For this reporting year this will be 8 September 1996. For the purposes of administrative tidiness and timeliness of reporting to the Assembly, and to ensure consistency in the tabling of reports, the directions require that all reports be tabled in the Legislative Assembly by a deadline of 26 September 1996. The Act also provides for the issuing of annual reporting directions.

I have now tabled the Chief Minister's Annual Reports Directions for 1995-96. These directions incorporate detail on the instruments, provide detail on the contextual framework for annual reporting, standard reporting requirements, specific content relating to performance reporting and publishing requirements. They also provide detailed information on other reporting requirements, including responses to Auditor-General's reports and detail required on contracts and consultancies.

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