22Annual report

22 Annual report

(1)  The Board is to prepare an annual report for each financial year.

(2)  The annual report is to contain at least the following information and documents:

(a) a report on the Board's activities and performance for the financial year, with particular reference to the Board’s objectives, functions and powers;

(b) particulars of any Ministerial directions given and in effect under section 14 in or in respect of the financial year and any actions taken by the Board in respect of those directions;

(c) a summary of each waste strategy that was in effect under section 19(7) for all or part of the financial year;

(d) a summary of the operational plan that is in effect under section 21(6) in relation to the financial year;

(e) the financial statements of the Board for the financial year;

(f) a copy of the Auditor-General's report on those financial statements, as prepared and provided under section 19 of the Audit Act 2008 ;

(g) any information that the Minister has, by notice to the Board, required to be put in the report.

(3)  The Board is to provide a copy of the annual report to the Minister so as to enable it to be tabled in accordance with subsection (4) .

(4)  On or before 31 October in each year, the Minister is to cause a copy of the annual report to be laid on the table of each House of Parliament.

(5)  If the Minister is unable to comply with subsection (4) because a House of Parliament is not sitting on 31 October in any year, the Minister is to –

(a) on or before that day, provide copies of the annual report to the Clerk of that House; and

(b) on or before that day, make copies of the annual report available to the public; and

(c) within the first 7 sitting-days after that day, cause copies of the annual report to be laid before that House.