38AAccountability to representative organisations

38A Accountability to representative organisations

(1) As soon as practicable after the annual report mentioned in section 38 has been given to the Minister under section 46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, the Chair of the Authority must: (a) provide copies of the report to each representative organisation; and (b) make arrangements with each of those organisations to attend: (i) the organisation’s annual conference; or (ii) a meeting of the organisation’s executive; for the purposes set out in subsection (2). (2) The purposes mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) are as follows: (a) to enable the report to be considered; (b) to enable the Chair to deliver an address in relation to: (i) the Authority’s activities in the period to which the report relates; and (ii) the Authority’s intended activities in the financial year next following the end of that period; (c) to enable the Chair to be questioned about those activities.