393Application of Division 3 of Part XI of the Audit Act

##### 393 Application of Division 3 of Part XI of the Audit Act (1) AUSTEL is a public authority to which Division 3 of Part XI of the Audit Act 1901 applies. (2) Each annual report submitted by AUSTEL under section 63M of the Audit Act 1901, as that section applies because of subsection (1) of this section, must include: (a) a copy of each instrument that: (i) AUSTEL gave to a carrier under subsection 46(1) during the financial year to which the annual report relates; and (ii) in AUSTEL’s opinion, contains no confidential information; and (b) in relation to each instrument that AUSTEL gave as mentioned in subparagraph (a)(i) and that, in AUSTEL’s opinion, contains confidential information: (i) if, in AUSTEL’s opinion, part of the instrument can be reproduced in the annual report without disclosing confidential information—a copy of that part; and (ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply—a statement specifying the instrument and the carrier to which, and the day on which, it was so given; and (iii) a statement that, because of confidential information contained in the instrument, or in a part of it, as the case requires, the instrument or part is not reproduced in the annual report; and (iv) a note summarising so much of the instrument as is not so reproduced, but without disclosing any information that, in AUSTEL’s opinion, is confidential; and (c) particulars of each notification of general policies of the Commonwealth Government under section 49 of this Act, being a notification given during the financial year to which the annual report relates; and (d) a report on: (i) the number and types of complaints made under Part 15 during the financial year; and (ii) the investigations conducted under Part 15 during the financial year as a result of complaints made under Part 15; and (iii) the results of those investigations.