Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The responsible Minister for a Commonwealth entity or the Finance Minister (the requesting Minister ) may request the Auditor - General to examine and report on the entity's annual performance statements.
Note: The Auditor - General may at any time conduct a performance audit of a Commonwealth entity: see Division 2 of Part 4 of the Auditor - General Act 1997 .
(2) If, under a request under subsection (1), the Auditor - General examines and reports on the entity's annual performance statements, the Auditor - General must give a copy of the report to the requesting Minister.
(3) The requesting Minister must cause a copy of the Auditor - General's report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament as soon as practicable after receipt. The copy that is tabled must be accompanied by a copy of the entity's annual performance statements.