16Meaning of “agency”

16 Meaning of “agency”

16 Meaning of “agency”

(1) In this Act, agency means 1 of the following persons or bodies—

(a) a Public Service agency,

(b) the group of staff comprising each of the following services, or a separate group of that staff—

(i) the NSW Police Force,

(ii) the Teaching Service of New South Wales,

(iii) the NSW Health Service,

(iv) the Transport Service of New South Wales,

(c) a statutory body representing the Crown,

(d) an integrity agency,

(e) a public authority whose conduct or activities an integrity agency is authorised by another Act or law to investigate or audit,

(f) a State owned corporation or subsidiary of a State owned corporation,

(g) a local government authority,

(h) a Local Aboriginal Land Council constituted under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983,

(i) the Department of Parliamentary Services, the Department of the Legislative Assembly and the Department of the Legislative Council.

(2) However, a Minister’s office is not an agency.

(3) The regulations may, for the purposes of this Act, declare a body—

(a) to be an agency, or

(b) not to be an agency.

(4) The regulations may declare a specified agency to be part of and included in another specified agency, and not to be a separate agency, for the purposes of—

(a) this Act, or

(b) specified provisions of this Act.