428Reports to the Parliament

428 Reports to the Parliament

(1) At any time, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission may make a report to the Parliament on any matter arising in connection with the performance of its functions.

(2) The Commission must cause a report under this section to be transmitted to each House of the Parliament as soon as is practicable after it has been prepared.

(3) The clerk of each House of the Parliament must cause the report to be laid before the House on the day on which it is received or on the next sitting day of the House.

(4) If the Commission proposes to transmit the report to the Parliament on a day on which neither House of the Parliament is actually sitting, the Commission must—

(a) give one business day's notice of its intention to do so to the clerk of each House of the Parliament; and

(b) give the report to the clerk of each House on the day indicated in the notice; and

(c) publicly release the report as soon as practicable after giving it to the clerks.

(5) The clerk of each House must—

(a) notify each member of the House of the receipt of a notice under subsection (4)(a) on the same day that the clerk receives the notice; and

(b) give a copy of the report to each member of the House as soon as practicable after the report is received under subsection (4)(b); and

(c) cause the report to be laid before the House on the next sitting day of the House.

S. 428(6) inserted by No. 20/2023 s. 22.

(6) A copy of a report that is given to the clerk of a House of the Parliament under subsection (4)(b) is taken to have been published by order, or under the authority, of that House.