(1) When the Board is preparing or revising a corporate plan, the Board must:
(a) prepare an annual operational plan for the first financial year to which the corporate plan or revised corporate plan will relate; and
(b) give the plan to the Minister for his or her endorsement .
(2) The Minister may ask the Board, in writing, to give the annual operational plan to the Minister by a time, and in a manner, specified by the Minister. The Board must comply with the request.
(3) The annual operational plan for a financial year must:
(a) contain an estimate of Tourism Australia's receipts and expenditure for the financial year; and
(b) specify:
(i) the programs that the Board proposes Tourism Australia to carry out; and
(ii) the resources that the Board proposes to allocate to each program;
in giving effect to the corporate plan during the financial year.
(4) The Board may revise the annual operational plan on its own initiative at any time.
(5) The Board must give a revised plan to the Minister for his or her endorsement .
(6) This Division applies to a revised annual operational plan in the same way it applies to an annual operational plan.