New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT SECTOR FINANCE ACT 2018 - SECT 4.14C

4.14C Application for contingency funding

(1) The Treasurer must consider the following before deciding an application for funding to an integrity agency from a sum appropriated to the Treasurer for contingencies in relation to integrity agencies (the
"contingency fund" )--

(a) the independence of the integrity agency from the direction or control of the executive government,

(b) whether the expenditure or reduction in revenue to which the contingency relates is urgent and unforeseen,

(c) whether refusing the application would cause the integrity agency to be unable to fulfil a statutory function,

(d) the availability of the funding from the contingency fund.

(2) The Treasurer must decide the application as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the application.

(3) The Treasurer must give written notice of the decision on the application to--

(a) the head of an integrity agency, and

(b) the relevant parliamentary oversight committee.