27DTransmission of documents to Parliament

27D Transmission of documents to Parliament (1) This section applies to the following documents— (a) an audited annual financial report; (b) a mid-year report; (c) a quarterly financial report; (d) a budget update; (e) the financial policy objectives and strategies statement prepared in association with a budget update. (2) The Minister must cause a document to be transmitted to each House of the Parliament on or before the due date for that document. (3) The ***due date*** for a document specified in column 1 of the following table is the date set out in column 2 of the table opposite that document. S. 27D(3) (Table) amended by No. 30/2025 s. 11. **TABLE** | *Column 1 Document* | *Column 2 Due date* | | audited annual financial report for a financial year | 15 October next following that financial year | | mid-year report for a financial year | 15 March in that financial year | | quarterly financial report for the quarter ending on 30 September in a financial year | 15 December in that financial year | | quarterly financial report for the quarter ending on 31 December in a financial year | 15 March in that financial year | | quarterly financial report for the quarter ending on 31 March in a financial year | 15 May in that financial year | | quarterly financial report for the quarter ending on 30 June in a financial year | 15 October next following that financial year | | budget update for a financial year and financial policy objectives and strategies statement prepared in association with it | 15 December in that financial year | S. 27D(3A) inserted by No. 72/2005 s. 3(1). (3A) Despite subsection (3), if in any financial year the budget for the following financial year (or, if applicable, the current financial year) is delivered within 30 days after the due date set out in Column 2 of the Table for a document (other than the budget update), the due date for the document is extended so as to allow the document to be transmitted to each House of the Parliament on the day on which the budget is delivered. (4) The clerk of each House of the Parliament must cause the document to be laid before the House on the day on which it is received or on the next sitting day of the House. S. 27D(5) amended by No. 72/2005 s. 3(2). (5) If the Minister proposes to transmit a document to the Parliament on a day on which neither House of the Parliament is actually sitting, the Minister must— (a) give one business day's notice of his or her intention to do so to the clerk of each House of the Parliament; and (b) give the document to the clerk of each House on the day indicated in the notice; and (c) publish the report on a Government Internet website as soon as practicable after giving it to the clerks. (6) The clerk of each House must— (a) notify each member of the House of the receipt of a notice under subsection (5)(a) on the same day that the clerk receives that notice; and (b) give a copy of a document to each member of the House as soon as practicable after the document is received under subsection (5)(b); and (c) cause the document to be laid before the House on the next sitting day of the House. S. 27D(7) repealed by No. 72/2005 s. 3(3). S. 27DA inserted by No. 43/2004 s. 12. 27DA Publication of documents protected (1) A document that is given to the clerks under section 27D(5)(b) is taken to have been published by order, or under the authority, of the Houses of the Parliament. (2) The publication of a document by the Minister under section 27D(5)(c) is absolutely privileged and the provisions of sections 73 and 74 of the **Constitution Act 1975** and any other enactment or rule of law relating to the publication of the proceedings of the Parliament apply to and in relation to the publication of the document as if it were a document to which those sections applied and had been published by the Government Printer under the authority of the Parliament. S. 27E inserted by No. 9/2000 s. 4[[1]](#endnote-2), substituted by No. 21/2024 s. 8.