New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING ACT 2011 - SECT 9

9 Independent role of heads of Government agencies

(1) The head of a Government agency is not subject to the direction or control of any Minister in the exercise of the following functions:

(a) determining or approving the method, medium or volume of any Government advertising campaign of the agency,

(b) determining whether to issue an advertising compliance certificate,

(c) determining whether to take debt recovery action and the taking of debt recovery action against a governing party under Part 3.

(2) This section does not apply to functions relating to the determination of budgetary or other financial limits for Government advertising campaigns.