47Strategic plans

#### 47 Strategic plans (1) The Agency must develop, and prepare in writing, for each successive period referred to in subsections (2) and (3), a strategic plan setting out: (a) the Agency’s broad objectives in performing its functions during the period; and (b) the manner in which it proposes to perform its functions during that period. (2) The first strategic plan prepared after the commencement of this subsection is to be expressed to relate to the period that began at the end of the last preceding strategic plan and ends on 30 June 2000, 30 June 2001 or 30 June 2002, as the Minister determines. (3) Each strategic plan after the strategic plan to which subsection (2) applies is to relate to a period determined by the Minister (being a period of 3, 4 or 5 years) beginning at the end of the period to which the immediately preceding strategic plan relates.