(1) The Treasurer or the appropriate Minister may, at any time, direct a Department Head to provide, within such time, if any, as is specified in the direction, as part of the Department’s annual report or by means of a separate report, such information relating to the financial report or operations, or both, of the Department as is so specified.(2) A Department Head shall comply with a direction given to the Department Head under subsection (1).(3) Except in so far as the Treasurer or the appropriate Minister, as the case may require, may otherwise determine, having regard to:(a) the confidential nature of any information provided by a Department Head in accordance with this section,(b) the effect of the dissemination of that information on the business or commercial operations of the Department, or(c) the circumstances of the case and the public interest,section 13 applies to and in respect of a separate report, provided under subsection (1), of a Department in the same way as it applies to and in respect of the Department’s annual report.
19 Reference of matters to Public Accounts Committee
(1) The Treasurer may refer any matter relating to the annual reports of Departments to the Public Accounts Committee for examination and report to the Treasurer.(2) The Treasurer shall refer to the Public Accounts Committee for examination and report to the Treasurer any proposal to amend this Act or make a regulation, other than a proposal made by the Public Accounts Committee.(3) Nothing in subsection (2) requires the Treasurer to refer a proposal to the Public Accounts Committee if, at the time the Treasurer formulates or receives the proposal:(a) no members have been appointed to the Committee, or(b) the members of the Committee have ceased to hold office.(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) prevents the Public Accounts Committee, after the Committee has reported to the Treasurer, from reporting to the Legislative Assembly on any matter referred to it by the Treasurer under subsection (1) or (2).(5) The provisions of section 57 (4) and (5) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 apply to and in respect of a report under subsection (4) in the same way as those provisions apply to and in respect of a report in accordance with section 57 (1) of that Act.
19A Delegation of Treasurer’s functions
(1) The Treasurer may delegate to an authorised person any of the functions of the Treasurer under this Act, other than this power of delegation.(2) A delegate may sub-delegate to an authorised person any function delegated by the Treasurer under this section if the delegate is authorised in writing to do so by the Treasurer.(3) In this section, authorised person means a member of the staff of the Treasury, or a person of a class prescribed by the regulations or approved by the Treasurer.
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may make provision for or with respect to:(a) the information and particulars to be included in the report of the operations of a Department,(b) the form of the report of the operations of a Department,(c) the manner of preparation of the report of the operations of a Department,(d) the distribution to the public of the annual report of a Department,(e) the cost of distribution to the public of the annual report of a Department, and(f) the granting of exemptions from provisions of the regulations.(3) A provision of a regulation may:(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors,(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any specified person, group of persons or body,or may do any combination of those things.