{"id":"C1917A00027","name":"Committee of Public Accounts Act 1917","slug":"committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"27 of 1917","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":19076,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1917A00027-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Committee of Public Accounts Act 1917","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nCOMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.\n\n \n\nNo. 27 of 1917.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Appointment of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts during the Second Session of the Seventh Parliament of the Commonwealth.\n\n[Assented to 21st September, 1917.]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Committee of Public Accounts Act 1917.\n\nAppointment of Committee during Seventh Parliament of the Commonwealth.\n\n2. Notwithstanding anything contained in section two of the Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts to be appointed during the Seventh Parliament of the Commonwealth, may be appointed during the second session of that Parliament, and shall be Appointed as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1485},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains the original scope of regulating the appointment of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts. It is a narrow, temporal modification that does not expand the committee's powers, alter its functions, or change its composition."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections total","Single, specific purpose (timing of appointment for one Parliament)","Only one external cross-reference (to Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913)","No defined terms, schedules, or procedural mechanisms"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act creates a one-time exception to the usual rules for appointing the **Joint Committee of Public Accounts** — the parliamentary committee that scrutinises government spending.\n\nUnder the earlier *Committee of Public Accounts Act 1913*, this committee had to be appointed immediately at the start of each Parliament. This 1917 law allowed a delay for the **Seventh Parliament**, permitting the committee to be appointed during the second session rather than the first.\n\nIn practical terms, it gave Parliament flexibility to postpone setting up its financial oversight committee until later in that specific parliamentary term."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917","history":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917/history","analysis":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/committee-of-public-accounts-act-1917/documents"}}