New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT SECTOR FINANCE ACT 2018 - SECT 2.4

2.4 GSF agencies

(1) Each of the following is a
"GSF agency" --

(a) a separate GSF agency,

(b) a NSW Health entity,

(c) the NSW Police Force,

(d) the New South Wales Treasury Corporation,

(f) the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal,

(g) a Council within the meaning of Part 5A of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) ,

(h) a State owned corporation,

(i) an entity that is a statutory body representing the Crown (including an entity that is a NSW Government agency to which section 13A of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies),

(j) an entity with money held in an SDA account (but the account itself is not to be treated as being a GSF agency),

(k) any Public Service agency not already covered by a previous paragraph,

(l) any other entity (or entity of a kind) prescribed by the regulations as a GSF agency.

(2) Each of the following entities (except if they are individuals) is also a GSF agency if it is not already an entity of a kind referred to in subsection (1)--

(a) an entity that is a controlled entity of another entity (or a combination of other entities) referred in subsection (1),

(b) an entity that is a controlled entity of a Minister or a combination of Ministers.

(3) To avoid doubt, an entity that is a joint venture is not a GSF agency unless it is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of subsection (1) (l) to be a GSF agency.

(4) However, a
"GSF agency" does not include--

(a) the Legislature of New South Wales, or

(b) a Minister (except to the extent to which Part 6 provides for a Minister to be treated as a GSF agency), or

(c) the Workers Compensation Insurance Fund, or

(d) the Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer.

(5) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the regulations may declare that a specified entity (or specified part of an entity) is, or is not, to be treated as a GSF agency that is distinct from another specified GSF agency for the purposes of Part 6.