14Accounts and reports to be presented to Parliament

14 Accounts and reports to be presented to Parliament

(1)  The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of Parliament, within 21 days after receiving them, copies of –

(a) the memorandum and articles of the Company and each of its subsidiaries and any amendments to those memorandums or articles; and

(b) [Section 14 Subsection (1) amended by No. 42 of 2001, Sched. 1, Applied:15 Jul 2001] financial statements, directors' reports, the auditor's report and the annual return for the Company and each of its subsidiaries as required by the Corporations Act; and

(c) each report by the auditor of the Company and each of its subsidiaries.

(2)  If a House of Parliament is not sitting when the Minister seeks to lay a document before it in accordance with subsection (1) –

(a) the Minister must provide a copy of that document to the Clerk of that House; and

(b) the Clerk of that House must cause a copy of that document to be laid before that House on its next sitting day; and

(c) for the purposes of its printing and publication, that document is to be taken to have been laid before that House, and to have been ordered to be printed by that House, when it is provided to the Clerk.