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South Australia
Public Finance and Audit (Auditor-General's Reports)
Amendment Bill 2017
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Public
Finance and Audit Act 1987
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Public Finance and
Audit Act 1987
3Amendment of section 36—Auditor-General's
annual report etc
4Amendment of section 38—Reports and other
documents to be tabled before Parliament and published
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Public Finance and Audit (Auditor-General's
Reports) Amendment Act 2017.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Public Finance and Audit
Act 1987
3—Amendment
of section 36—Auditor-General's annual report etc
(1) Section 36(2)—delete "not later than the prescribed date" and
substitute:
within 100 days after the end of the financial year
(2) Section 36(3)—delete "a supplementary report (and annex
documents to it) relating to a matter required to be dealt with in an annual
report and deliver the" and substitute:
other reports (and annex documents to them) relating to matters required to
be dealt with in an annual report and deliver each such
(3) Section 36—after subsection (3) insert:
(4) If the President of the Legislative Council or the Speaker of the
House of Assembly is absent at the time the Auditor-General delivers to the
Parliament a report under this section, the Clerk of the relevant House will
receive the report on behalf of the President or the Speaker (as the case may
be) and the report will then be taken to have been delivered to the President or
the Speaker.
4—Amendment
of section 38—Reports and other documents to be tabled before Parliament
and published
(1) Section 38—delete "receiving a report and other documents from
the Auditor-General" and substitute:
a report and other documents have been delivered (or are taken to have been
delivered) to the President or the Speaker by the Auditor-General
(2) Section 38—after its present contents as amended by this clause
(now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:
(2) Subject to
subsection (3)
, the Auditor-General may, after a report has been delivered (or is taken
to have been delivered) to the President of the Legislative Council and the
Speaker of the House of Assembly under this Part, publish the report and any
documents annexed to the report on a website determined by the Auditor-General
or in such other manner as the Auditor-General thinks fit.
(3) If the day
immediately following the day on which the report is delivered (or is taken to
have been delivered) is a sitting day for either House of the Parliament, the
Auditor-General must not publish the report and other documents in accordance
with
subsection (2)
until the report has been laid before a House of the Parliament.