22Annual report

22 Annual report

(1)  In respect of each financial year the Regulator is to prepare a report which includes –

(a) a report on the performance and exercise of the Regulator's functions and powers under this and any other Act; and

(b) the particulars of any contravention of the national competition policy competitive neutrality principles –

(i) that a prescribed body admits to having committed in response to a complaint; or

(ii) that the Regulator, during a complaint inquiry, prescribed body inquiry or monopoly provider investigation, determines has been committed by a prescribed body; and

(c) whether any action was taken by a prescribed body referred to in paragraph (b) in relation to its contravention of the national competition policy competitive neutrality principles and, if so, what that action was; and

(d) the financial statements of the Regulator; and

(e) the Auditor-General's report on those financial statements; and

(f) any information the Minister, by written notice provided to the Regulator, requires to be included; and

(g) any other information the Regulator considers appropriate to be included.

(2)  The Regulator is to provide a copy of the annual report to the Minister so as to enable it to be tabled in accordance with section 23 .