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GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING ACT 2011 - SECT 14
Auditor-General to conduct performance audit
14 Auditor-General to conduct performance audit
(1) The Auditor-General must conduct a performance audit of the activities of
one or more Government agencies in relation to
Government advertising campaigns of the agency in each financial year.
(2) A
performance audit is to be carried out within the period (if any) prescribed
by the regulations.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the Auditor-General
must determine whether a Government agency is carrying out activities in
relation to Government advertising campaigns effectively and doing so
economically and efficiently and in compliance with this Act, the regulations,
other laws and the Government advertising guidelines.
(4) The Auditor-General
may determine that the content or other circumstances of a
Government advertising campaign constitute a breach of the requirements of
section 6 or regulations made under that section.
(5) The Auditor-General
must include any such determination in the report of the performance audit and
must also specify the cost of the Government advertising campaign concerned.
(6) The Auditor-General may determine, at the Auditor-General's discretion,
the Government agencies to be audited under this section.
(7) The performance
audit is to be carried out under Division 2A of Part 3 of the Public Finance
and Audit Act 1983 .
(8) The Auditor-General may report on one or more
performance audits under this section in a report under Division 2A of Part 3
of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 .
(9) This section does not limit
any other function of the Auditor-General under any other law.
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