(1) The Registrar must, as soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, prepare and give to the Commonwealth Minister, for presentation to the Parliament, a report on the operations of the Registrar during that year.
Note: See also section 34C of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 , which contains extra rules about annual reports.
(2) The Registrar must give a copy of the report to the Education Minister and the Ministerial Council at the same time as the report is presented to the Parliament.
(3) If this section does not commence at the start of a financial year, the period:
(a) starting at the commencement of this section; and
(b) ending at the end of the first 30 June after that commencement;
is taken, for the purposes of this section, to be a financial year.