28Reports by Chief Executive Officers

28 Reports by Chief Executive Officers (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Chief Executive Officer of an Agency must present a report to the appropriate minister on the operations of the Agency during a financial year: (a) within 3 months after the end of the financial year; or (b) if the Treasurer has determined under section 10 or 11 of the Financial Management Act 1995 a longer period for the preparation of a financial statement in respect of the Agency – within that longer period. (2) The report must contain information about the following: (a) the functions and objectives of the Agency; (b) the legislation administered by the Agency; (c) the organisation of the Agency, including the number of employees of each designation in the Agency and any variation in those numbers since the last report; (d) the Agency's operations, initiatives and achievements (including those relating to planning, efficiency, effectiveness and performance and, where appropriate, delivery of services to the community); (e) the financial planning and performance of the Agency; (f) the extent to which the public sector principles have been upheld in the Agency during the financial year, including: (i) measures taken to ensure they are upheld; and (ii) any significant failures to uphold them of which the Chief Executive Officer is aware; (g) management training and staff development programs in the (h) occupational health and safety programs in the Agency. (3) Where the Chief Executive Officer is under some other statutory obligation to make an annual report, or present an audited financial statement under section 10 or 11 of the Financial Management Public Sector Employment and Management Act 1993 21 Act 1995, to the appropriate minister, the report required by this section to be presented may be incorporated with that other report or financial statement and, if it is so incorporated: (a) the period to which the report relates must be the same as for that other report or financial statement; and (b) the report must be presented to the appropriate minister within 6 months after the end of the period to which it relates or any earlier time as that other report or financial statement is required to be presented to the appropriate minister. (4) The appropriate minister must table a copy of the report in the Legislative Assembly within 6 sitting days after the minister receives the report, or if it is incorporated with another report under subsection (3), within any longer period allowed for the tabling of the other report.