Queensland Consolidated Regulations

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION 2012 - REG 190

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(1) The annual report for a financial year must contain the following information—

(a) the chief executive officer’s assessment of the local government’s progress towards implementing its 5-year corporate plan and annual operational plan;

(b) particulars of other issues relevant to making an informed assessment of the local government’s operations and performance in the financial year;

(c) an annual operations report for each commercial business unit;

(d) details of any action taken for, and expenditure on, a service, facility or activity—

(i) supplied by another local government under an agreement for conducting a joint government activity; and

(ii) for which the local government levied special rates or charges for the financial year;

(e) the number of invitations to change tenders under section 228 (8) during the financial year;

(f) a list of the registers kept by the local government;

(g) a summary of all concessions for rates and charges granted by the local government;

(h) the report on the internal audit for the financial year;

(i) a summary of investigation notices given in the financial year under section 49 for competitive neutrality complaints;

(j) the local government’s responses in the financial year on the competition authority’s recommendations on any competitive neutrality complaints under section 52 (3) .

(2) In this section—

"annual operations report" , for a commercial business unit, means a document that contains the following information for the previous financial year—

(a) information that allows an informed assessment of the unit’s operations, including a comparison with the unit’s annual performance plan;

(b) particulars of any changes made to the unit’s annual performance plan for the previous financial year;

(c) particulars of the impact the changes had on the unit’s—

(i) financial position; and

(ii) operating surplus or deficit; and

(iii) prospects;

(d) particulars of any directions the local government gave the unit.