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Government Owned Corporations Act 1993
sec.122Board to keep shareholding Ministers informed
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### sec.122 Board to keep shareholding Ministers informed
A GOC’s board must—
keep the shareholding Ministers reasonably informed of the operations, financial performance and financial position of the GOC and its subsidiaries, including the assets and liabilities, profits and losses and prospects of the GOC and its subsidiaries; and
give to the shareholding Ministers reports and information that they require to enable them to make informed assessments of matters mentioned in paragraph (a) ; and
if matters arise that in the board’s opinion may prevent, or significantly affect, achievement of the GOC’s objectives outlined in its statement of corporate intent or targets under its corporate plan—immediately inform the shareholding Ministers of the matters and its opinion in relation to them.
Subsection (1) does not limit the matters of which the board is required to keep the shareholding Ministers informed, or limit the reports or information that the board is required, or may be required, to give to the shareholding Ministers, by the Corporations Act or another Act.
s 122 amd 2001 No. 45 s 29 sch 3
(sec.122-ssec.1) A GOC’s board must— keep the shareholding Ministers reasonably informed of the operations, financial performance and financial position of the GOC and its subsidiaries, including the assets and liabilities, profits and losses and prospects of the GOC and its subsidiaries; and give to the shareholding Ministers reports and information that they require to enable them to make informed assessments of matters mentioned in paragraph (a) ; and if matters arise that in the board’s opinion may prevent, or significantly affect, achievement of the GOC’s objectives outlined in its statement of corporate intent or targets under its corporate plan—immediately inform the shareholding Ministers of the matters and its opinion in relation to them.
(sec.122-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not limit the matters of which the board is required to keep the shareholding Ministers informed, or limit the reports or information that the board is required, or may be required, to give to the shareholding Ministers, by the Corporations Act or another Act.
- (a) keep the shareholding Ministers reasonably informed of the operations, financial performance and financial position of the GOC and its subsidiaries, including the assets and liabilities, profits and losses and prospects of the GOC and its subsidiaries; and
- (b) give to the shareholding Ministers reports and information that they require to enable them to make informed assessments of matters mentioned in paragraph (a) ; and
- (c) if matters arise that in the board’s opinion may prevent, or significantly affect, achievement of the GOC’s objectives outlined in its statement of corporate intent or targets under its corporate plan—immediately inform the shareholding Ministers of the matters and its opinion in relation to them.