{"id":"F2014L00848","name":"Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Commencement Proclamation 2014","slug":"public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":91931,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2014L00848-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Commencement Proclamation 2014","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\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nPublic Governance, Performance and Accountability Commencement Proclamation 2014\n\nI, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under item 2 of the table in subsection 2(1) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, fix as the day on which sections 6 to 112 of that Act commence:\n\n(a) if the Acts mentioned in Schedule 1 all receive the Royal Assent before 1 July 2014—1 July 2014; or\n\n(b) otherwise—1 January 2015.\n\n \n\n \n\nSigned and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 26 June 2014\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nMathias Cormann\n\nMinister for Finance\n\n \n\n \n\nSchedule 1—Acts\n\n  \n\n \n\n1  Acts\n\n  The Acts are:\n\n (a) the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment Act 2014; and\n\n (b) the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2014; and\n\n (c) the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Act 2014; and\n\n (d) the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Act 2014; and\n\n (e) the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Act 2014.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1622},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the machinery function intended: it proclaims commencement dates for the parent Act based on a legislative readiness condition. It does not expand, restrict, or alter the substantive scope of the PGPA Act 2013."},"complexity_factors":["Single conditional commencement trigger with two alternative dates","No defined terms or interpretation provisions","Only two operative paragraphs plus a short schedule listing five Acts","No cross-references to substantive legal rules or nested exceptions"],"plain_english_summary":"This proclamation turns on the main body of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, setting its operative date as 1 July 2014 only if five related consequential Acts receive Royal Assent before then; otherwise the Act starts on 1 January 2015. \n\nIt matters because those companion Acts update budget and appropriation law so the new federal financial management, reporting and accountability system can operate, and it affects all Commonwealth entities that must align their finance and reporting systems to the new regime."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014","history":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014/history","analysis":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/public-governance-performance-and-accountability-commencement-proclamation-2014/documents"}}