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Water Resources Act 2007
67DAnnual report by coordination group
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67D Annual report by coordination group
(1) For each financial year, the coordination group must prepare a report
about the group’s activities during the financial year, including any
advice given, or recommendations made, to the Minister.
(2) The report must include—
(a) a copy of each Minister’s direction given during the year; and
(b) a summary of the advice provided to the Minister.
(3) The group must give the report to the Minister within 3 months after
the end of the financial year.
(4) The Minister must, within 21 days after receiving the report, table the
following in the Legislative Assembly:
(a) the report;
(b) a statement by the Minister responding to any advice given or
recommendations made to the Minister in the group’s annual
report.
(5) However, if—
(a) there are no sitting days during the 21-day period—
(i) the Minister must give the report and the statement, and a
copy of each for each member of the Legislative Assembly,
to the Speaker; and
(ii) the report and the statement are taken for all purposes to
have been presented to the Legislative Assembly on the
day the Minister gives it to the Speaker (the report day);
and
(iii) the Speaker must arrange for a copy of the report and a
copy of the statement to be given to each member of the
Legislative Assembly on the report day; and
(iv) despite subparagraph (ii), the Speaker must present the
report and the statement to the Legislative Assembly on the
next sitting day; or
(b) the 21-day period coincides with all or part of the pre-election
period for a general election of members of the Assembly—the
Minister must table the report and the statement in the
Legislative Assembly on the second sitting day after the election
is held.
(6) In this section:
Minister’s direction—see section 67CA (1).
pre-election period—see the Electoral Act 1992, dictionary.
Speaker includes—
(a) if the Speaker is unavailable—the Deputy Speaker; and
(b) if both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker are unavailable—
the clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
unavailable—the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is unavailable if—
(a) the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is absent from duty; or
(b) there is a vacancy in the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker.