Employment, Education and Training Act 1988
61Department to provide information
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61 Department to provide information
(1) The Council may request the Department, in writing, to furnish to it information specified in the request, being information that the Council reasonably requires for the proper performance of its functions and believes to be in the possession, or under the control, of the Department. (2) Where:
(a) the Department refuses or fails to furnish to the Council, within a reasonable time, information that it has been requested to furnish under subsection (1); and
(b) the Council is of the opinion that the refusal or failure is unreasonable;
the Council may report the refusal or failure to the Minister. (3) The Minister shall cause a copy of a report received by him or her under subsection (2) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of the House after the day on which the Minister received the report.