5Establishment of Bureau and office of Statistician

#### 5 Establishment of Bureau and office of Statistician (1) There is hereby established a Bureau to be known as the Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2) There shall be an Australian Statistician. (3) The Bureau shall consist of the Statistician and the staff referred to in subsection 16(1). (4) The Statistician shall control the operations of the Bureau and shall have such other functions, powers and duties as are conferred or imposed upon the Statistician by or under any Act and such other functions and powers as are conferred upon the Statistician by or under any law of a Territory. (5) For the purposes of the finance law (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013): (a) the Bureau is a listed entity; and (b) the Statistician is the accountable authority of the Bureau; and (c) the following persons are officials of the Bureau: (i) the Statistician; (ii) the staff referred to in subsection 16(1); (iii) persons engaged under subsection 16(2); and (d) the purposes of the Bureau include: (i) the functions of the Bureau referred to in section 6; and (ii) the functions of the Statistician referred to in subsection (4) and section 4.