Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

CHAPTER 2 - COMMONWEALTH ENTITIES AND THE COMMONWEALTH  

PART 2-3 - PLANNING, PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY  

Division 3 - Performance of Commonwealth entities  

SECTION 40   AUDIT OF ANNUAL PERFORMANCE STATEMENTS FOR COMMONWEALTH ENTITIES  

40(1)    
The responsible Minister for a Commonwealth entity or the Finance Minister (the requesting Minister ) may request the Auditor-General to examine and report on the entity ' s annual performance statements.

Note:

The Auditor-General may at any time conduct a performance audit of a Commonwealth entity: see Division 2 of Part 4 of the Auditor-General Act 1997 .


40(2)    
If, under a request under subsection (1) , the Auditor-General examines and reports on the entity ' s annual performance statements, the Auditor-General must give a copy of the report to the requesting Minister.

40(3)    
The requesting Minister must cause a copy of the Auditor-General ' s report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after receipt. The copy that is tabled must be accompanied by a copy of the entity ' s annual performance statements.


 

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