22Reporting to the public

22 Reporting to the public

(1A) The object of this section is to create public reporting requirements of a kind mentioned in paragraph 3(2)(b). (1) A registered corporation must: (a) prepare a report in accordance with this section for each period mentioned in subsection (2); and (b) make the report available to the public in accordance with subsection (5).

Note: Clause 3 of Schedule 1 provides for a civil penalty for failing to comply with this subsection.

(2) The period is the period specified in the regulations. (3) The report must contain: (a) a description of the way in which the corporation has carried out, during the period, the proposal in its approved assessment plan for assessing the opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of its group; and (b) the results of carrying out that proposal; and (c) the response of the corporation to those results; and (d) any other information required by the regulations. (3A) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (3)(d) may only require information that is reasonably necessary to further the object of this section. (4) The report must: (a) be in the form (if any) specified in the regulations; and (b) be signed by a person who is the chair of the board of directors, the chief executive officer, the managing director, or an equivalent officer, of the registered corporation; and (c) include a statement by that person that the board of directors of the registered corporation has reviewed and noted the report. (5) The report must be made available to the public: (a) at the time specified in the regulations; and (b) in the manner (if any) specified in the regulations. (6) Despite subsection (5), the report need not be made available to the public at a time if, within the period of 12 months ending at that time, the registered corporation had made another report under this section available to the public.