Audit Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3481

Audit Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Audit Act 1901.

Dated 26 November 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd) Margaret Guilfoyle

Minister of State for Finance

1. Regulation 2a of the Audit Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Application of Divisions 2 and 3 of Part XI of Act to A.C.T. public authorities

“2a. (1) In this regulation—

(a) ‘authority’ means a body corporate incorporated for a public purpose by an Ordinance of the Territory or by regulations made under such an Ordinance;

(b) ‘Division’ means a Division of Part XI of the Act;

(c) ‘Territory’ means the Australian Capital Territory; and

(d) a reference to a column by number is a reference to the column so numbered in Part I of Schedule 1.

“(2) It is hereby declared that an authority specified in column 2 is a public authority to which the Division that is specified in column 3 in relation to that authority applies.

“(3) The Division specified in column 3 in relation to an authority applies to that authority subject to the modifications set out in the Part (if any) of Schedule 1 that is specified in column. 4 in relation to that authority.

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“(4) For the purposes of Part XI of the Act, the Minister (if any) specified in column 5 in relation to an authority is prescribed in relation to that authority in place of the Minister administering the Act authorizing the making of Ordinances for the Territory.”.

Schedule 1

2. (1) Schedule 1 to the Audit Regulations is amended by inserting after—

“SCHEDULE 1”

the following Part and Part heading:

“PART 1

A.C.T. PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Item No.	Authority	Division	Part	Minister
1	Building and Construction Industry Long Service Leave Board	2	II	—
2	Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority	3	III	Minister of State for Education

PART II”.

(2) Schedule 1 to the Audit Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following Part:

“PART III

MODIFICATIONS OF DIVISION 3 OF PART XI OF THE AUDIT ACT 1901—AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY SCHOOLS AUTHORITY

1. Omit ‘approved by’ from sub-section 63j (3) and substitute ‘approved, in relation to the authority, by’.

2. Add at the end of sub-section 63m (1) ‘in relation to the authority’.

3. Insert after sub-section 63m (1):

‘(1a) The report shall set out all approvals and directions given by the appropriate Minister under section 6 of the Schools Authority Ordinance 1976 of the Australian Capital Territory during that year’.

4. Insert ‘, and the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly,’ after ‘Parliament’ in subsection 63m (3).

5. Add at the end of section 63m the following sub-section:

‘(4) The first report and financial statements of the authority under this section shall relate to the operations of the authority during the year that ended on 30 June 1980.’.

6. After section 63m add the following section:

‘63ma. Nothing in this Division shall be taken to be in derogation of sections 29, 31 and 35 of the Schools Authority Ordinance 1976 of the Australian Capital Territory.’.”.

Schedule 2

3. Schedule 2 to the Audit Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting—

“Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority”

after—

“Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority”;

(b) by omitting—

“Australian Wine Board”

and substituting—

“Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation

Building and Construction Industry Long Service Leave Board (Australian Capital Territory)”;

and

(c) by inserting—

“Museum of Australia”

after—

“Milk Authority of the Australian Capital Territory”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 December 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 284 as amended by 1981 Nos. 41 and 259.

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