9Reports on automotive industry matters

9 Reports on automotive industry matters

(1) The Minister may, by notice in writing delivered to the senior member, request the Authority to consider, and prepare and give to the Minister a report on, an automotive industry matter specified in the notice and, where the Minister does so, the Authority shall comply with the request as soon as it is practicable to do so. (2) The Authority may, where it considers it appropriate to do so, consider, and prepare and give to the Minister a report on, any automotive industry matter. (3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), the Authority may:

(a) prepare and give to the Minister a report on any instance that it considers is an instance of failure by a person involved in the automotive industry to act consistently with the policies of the Commonwealth Government in respect of that industry; and

(b) where it considers it appropriate to do so, recommend to the Minister that the whole or part of a report referred to in paragraph (a) be published.

(4) Where, under this section, the Authority is required to, or may, consider, and prepare and give to the Minister a report on, an automotive industry matter, the Authority may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, arrange for members of the staff referred to in subsection 24(1) or other persons, to carry out research in respect of that matter and to prepare a report on that research, and, where the Authority does so, and that report is prepared, the Authority, for the purposes of this Act, shall be taken to have considered that matter and may adopt that report as the report of the Authority on that matter.