New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 31

31 Corporate plans

(1) The State Transit Authority shall, at least 3 months before the beginning of each financial year of the Authority, prepare and deliver to TfNSW a draft corporate plan for the financial year.

(2) The State Transit Authority shall--

(a) consider any comments on the draft corporate plan that were made by TfNSW within 2 months after the draft plan was delivered to TfNSW, and

(b) deliver the completed corporate plan to TfNSW before the beginning of the financial year concerned.

(2A) During the preparation of a corporate plan after the commencement of this subsection, the State Transit Authority is to make a draft plan available for public comment for at least 30 days and is to have regard to any submissions it receives about the draft plan within that period. The arrangements for obtaining or inspecting the draft plan and for making submissions are to be advertised in a daily newspaper circulating throughout the State.

(2B) The State Transit Authority is to make the completed corporate plan available for public inspection. However, the Authority is not required to include in any draft or completed plan made available for public comment or inspection information that is of a commercially sensitive nature or that it would otherwise not be required to disclose under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .

(3) The State Transit Authority shall, as far as practicable, exercise its functions in accordance with the relevant corporate plan.

(4) A corporate plan shall specify--

(a) the separate activities of the State Transit Authority and, in particular, the separate commercial and non-commercial activities, and

(b) the objectives of each such separate activity for the financial year concerned and for future financial years, and

(c) the strategies, policies and budgets for achieving those objectives in relation to each such separate activity, and

(d) targets and criteria for assessing the Authority's performance.

(4A) A corporate plan must specify strategies for dealing with the integration of passenger services and passenger safety, security and conduct and any other similar issues that TfNSW directs are to be addressed by the corporate plan.

(5) This section is subject to any requirement made by or under this Act.