36Annual report

36 Annual report

36 Annual report

(1) The Commissioner is, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, to prepare a report of the Commissioner’s work and activities for the 12 months preceding that date and is to furnish the report to the Presiding Officer of each House of Parliament.

(2) A copy of the report is to be provided to the Minister.

(2A) The report is to be included as part of the annual reporting information prepared for the Information and Privacy Commission under the Government Sector Finance Act 2018.

(3) Division 7.3 of the Government Sector Finance Act 2018 is, in its application to the annual reporting information prepared for the Information and Privacy Commission, modified as follows—

(a) the annual reporting information is to be given to the Presiding Officer of each House of Parliament and not to the responsible Minister for the Information and Privacy Commission,

(b) provisions of that Act relating to the giving of annual reporting information to the responsible Minister for a GSF agency and to the public availability of annual reporting information do not apply to the Commissioner or the Information and Privacy Commission.

(4) Section 39 (Procedure for reporting) applies to the annual reporting information for the Information and Privacy Commission as if it were a report made or furnished under this Part.

s 36: Am 2010 No 71, Sch 2 [4]–[7]; 2018 No 70, Sch 4.39[1] [2].