New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT SECTOR FINANCE ACT 2018 - SECT 10.3A

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 18 March 2024 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.