Annual Reports (Departments) Amendment Regulation 2007 (NSW)
2007 No 618
New South Wales
Annual Reports (Departments)
Amendment Regulation 2007
under the
Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985
Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985.
MICHAEL COSTA, M.L.C.,
Treasurer
Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Annual Reports (Departments) Regulation 2005 for the following purposes:
| (a) | to provide for small Departments to report on a triennial basis (instead of annually) on the following matters: | |||||
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| (b) | to provide for the Department of Education and Training’s annual report to include a statement on EEO matters in relation to the Teaching Service, | |||||
| (c) | to require a Department’s annual report to be made publicly available on the Department’s internet site. |
This Regulation is made under the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985, including sections 11, 14 and 20 (the general regulation-making power).
| Published in Gazette No 185 of 21 December 2007, page 9820 | Page 1 |
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| Clause 1 | Annual Reports (Departments) Amendment Regulation 2007 |
Annual Reports (Departments) Amendment Regulation
2007
under the
Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985
1 Name of Regulation
This Regulation is the Annual Reports (Departments) Amendment
Regulation 2007.
2 Amendment of Annual Reports (Departments) Regulation 2005
The Annual Reports (Departments) Regulation 2005 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
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| Amendments | Schedule 1 |
| Schedule 1 | Amendments |
(Clause 2)
[1] Clause 5 Additional matters for inclusion in annual reports
Omit “if the report is available on the Internet,” from clause 5 (g).
[2] Clause 9A
Insert after clause 9:
9A Annual report of Department of Education and Training to include
EEO matters relating to Teaching ServiceThe report of operations of the Department of Education and Training is to include a statement setting out the equal employment opportunity achievements of the Teaching Service during the reporting year and the key equal employment opportunity strategies proposed by the Director-General of that Department for the following year in respect of the Teaching Service.
[3] Clause 12 Public availability of annual reports
Insert after clause 12 (1):
(1A) A Department Head must ensure that a copy of the annual report of the Department is made publicly available on the Department’s Internet site (or other relevant Internet site) as soon as practicable after the report has been presented to Parliament. [4] Clause 13A
Insert after clause 13:
13A Exemption for small Departments to report annually on certain
matters
(1)
This clause applies in relation to any Department that the Secretary of the Treasury determines to be a small Department for the purposes of this clause. In making any such determination, the Secretary may take into consideration the number of staff that are employed in the Department.
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| Schedule 1 | Amendments |
(2) The particulars set out in Column 2 of Schedule 1 in relation to the following matters (as described in Column 1 of that Schedule) are required to be included in the report of the operations of a Department to which this clause applies on a triennial basis (as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury) only:
(a) Equal employment opportunity, (b) Ethnic affairs priorities statement, (c) Waste.
[5] Schedule 1 Report of operations
Insert “(as detailed within the Department’s EEO Management Plan)” after “proposed by the Department” in the matter relating to “Equal employment opportunity” in Column 2 of Schedule 1.
[6] Schedule 1
Omit the matter relating to “Ethnic affairs priorities statement and any agreement” from Columns 1 and 2.
Insert instead:
Ethnic affairs priorities A statement setting out the progress in implementing statement the Department’s ethnic affairs priorities statement, the
key ethnic affairs strategies proposed by the
Department for the following year and information as
to the ethnic affairs priorities statements of any bodies
reporting to the DepartmentAgreements with the A statement describing any agreement entered into Community Relations between the Department and the Community Relations Commission Commission under the Community Relations
Commission and Principles of Multiculturalism Act
2000 and a statement setting out the Department’s
progress in implementing any such agreement
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