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New South Wales
Government Sector Finance Amendment
(Grants) Bill 2023
Contents
Page
1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
Schedule 1 Amendment of Government Sector Finance Act 2018 No 55 3
Schedule 2 Amendment of Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009
No 52 4
Schedule 3 Amendment of Government Information (Public Access) Regulation
2018 5
I certify that this PUBLIC BILL, which originated in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, has finally
passed the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL and the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of NEW SOUTH WALES.
Clerk of the Parliaments
egislative Council
2023
New South Wales
Government Sector Finance Amendment
(Grants) Bill 2023
Act No , 2023
An Act to amend the Government Sector Finance Act 2018, the Government Information (Public
Access) Act 2009 and the Government Information (Public Access) Regulation 2018 in relation to
the administration of government grants.
Government Sector Finance Amendment (Grants) Bill 2023 [NSW]
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts--
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Government Sector Finance Amendment (Grants) Act 2023.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on 1 July 2023.
Page 2
Government Sector Finance Amendment (Grants) Bill 2023 [NSW]
Schedule 1 Amendment of Government Sector Finance Act 2018 No 55
Schedule 1 Amendment of Government Sector Finance Act
2018 No 55
[1] Section 10.3A
Insert after section 10.3--
10.3A Administration of government grants
(1) The following persons must not knowingly breach a mandatory requirement
contained in a Grants Administration Guide--
(a) a Minister,
(b) a person employed by a Minister under the Members of Parliament Staff
Act 2013,
(c) an employee of a government sector agency within the meaning of the
Government Sector Employment Act 2013, other than a person
employed in or by a State owned corporation.
(2) A Minister must not approve a grant to which the Grants Administration Guide
applies unless satisfied that the grant--
(a) is an efficient, effective, economical and ethical use of money, and
(b) achieves value for money.
(3) When approving or declining a grant to which the Grants Administration
Guide applies, a person must have regard to the key principles of grants
administration specified in the Guide.
Note-- The key principles specified in the Grants Administration Guide published in
the Gazette on 19 September 2022 are robust planning and design, collaboration and
partnership, proportionality, an outcomes orientation, achieving value with relevant
money, governance and accountability and probity and transparency.
(4) In this section--
Grants Administration Guide means a Grants Administration Guide issued
from time to time by the Premier and published in the Gazette.
mandatory requirement, of a Grants Administration Guide, means a
requirement contained in the Guide that is expressly identified by the Guide to
be a mandatory requirement.
[2] Schedule 1 Savings, transitional and other provisions
Omit Part 4.
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Government Sector Finance Amendment (Grants) Bill 2023 [NSW]
Schedule 2 Amendment of Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 No 52
Schedule 2 Amendment of Government Information (Public
Access) Act 2009 No 52
[1] Section 6 Mandatory proactive release of certain government information
Omit "a website maintained by the agency" from section 6(2).
Insert instead "a relevant website".
[2] Section 6(7)
Insert after section 6(6)--
(7) In this section--
relevant website means--
(a) a website maintained by the agency, or
(b) for open access information prescribed under section 18(g) for which a
website is prescribed by the regulations--the website.
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Government Sector Finance Amendment (Grants) Bill 2023 [NSW]
Schedule 3 Amendment of Government Information (Public Access) Regulation 2018
Schedule 3 Amendment of Government Information (Public
Access) Regulation 2018
Clause 6A
Insert after clause 6--
6A Additional open access information about grants administration
(1) For the Act, section 18(g), information relating to grants administered, or
proposed to be administered, by an agency is prescribed as open access
information of the agency if the information is required, under a mandatory
requirement of the Grants Administration Guide, to be published by the
agency on a website specified in the Guide.
(2) For the Act, section 6(7), definition of relevant website, paragraph (b), the
website specified in the Grants Administration Guide is prescribed.
(3) In this clause--
Grants Administration Guide has the same meaning as in the Government
Sector Finance Act 2018, section 10.3A.
mandatory requirement has the same meaning as in the Government Sector
Finance Act 2018, section 10.3A.
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