19CCorporate plans

19C Corporate plans

(1) Each Authority must prepare a corporate plan and submit it to the Minister—

(a) on or before the date specified by the Minister; or

(b) if no such date is specified, at least 2 months before it intends to implement the plan or any part of it.

(2) A corporate plan must be in or to the effect of a form approved by the Minister and must include—

(a) a statement of corporate intent in accordance with section 19D;

(b) a business plan and financial statements containing the information that the Minister requires;

(3) An Authority may implement a corporate plan 2 months (or any shorter time allowed by the Minister) after its submission to the Minister, unless the Minister, within that time, directs in writing any variations that the Minister thinks fit to be made in any corporate plan submitted in accordance with this section.

(4) The Minister must publish in the Government Gazette any direction made under subsection (3).

(5) The Minister must not give a direction under subsection (3) without first having consulted the Authority about the direction.

(6) An Authority must not make a major deviation from its corporate plan unless it has, at least 2 months (or any shorter time allowed by the Minister) before it intends to make the deviation, submitted to the Minister details of the proposed deviation.

(7) The Minister may issue guidelines as to what are major deviations for the purposes of subsection (6).

(8) The corporate plan of an Authority at any time is that plan as varied under subsection (3), or as revised by any deviation under subsection (6), at that time.

S. 19C(9) inserted by No. 48/2021 s. 128.

(9) This section does not apply to Melbourne Water Corporation.

S. 19D inserted by No. 85/2006 s. 154, amended by No. 48/2021 s. 129 (ILA s. 39B(1)).