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AUDITOR-GENERAL ACT 1997 - SECT 28

Annual report for the Australian National Audit Office

  (1)   As soon as practicable after 30   June in each financial year, the Auditor - General must:

  (a)   prepare a report on the activities of the Audit Office during that financial year; and

  (b)   cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament.

Note:   The following provisions set out information that must be included in the Audit Office's annual report:

(a)   subsections   14(4), 16(4) and 54(4) of this Act;

(b)   paragraph   39(1)(b) and subsection   43(4) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .

  (2)   The annual report must be tabled by:

  (a)   the 15th day of October; or

  (b)   the end of any further period granted under subsection   34C(5) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

  (3)   The annual report must comply with any requirements prescribed by rules made for the purposes of subsection   46(3) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 , in relation to non - corporate Commonwealth entities, as if a reference in those rules to section   46 of that Act were a reference to this section.

  (4)   An annual report is taken, for the purposes of any other Act, to be a report under section   46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .

  (5)   Section   46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 does not apply in relation to the Auditor - General.



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