Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749:section:96
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00749
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 96
Character Range: 438028–439189

96  Annual reports by State authorities
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the chief officer of an eligible authority of a State shall, as soon as practicable, and in any event within 3 months, after each 30 June, give to the Minister a written report that:
 (a) if information that section 102 or 102A requires to be set out in the Minister's report under Division 2 relating to the year ending on that 30 June can be derived from the authority's records—sets out that information; or
 (b) in any other case—states that no such information can be so derived.
 (1A) A report under subsection (1) must include a statement of the total expenditure (including expenditure of a capital nature) incurred by the eligible authority concerned in connection with the execution of warrants during the year to which the report relates.
 (2) Where a Minister of a State has given to the Minister a written report that sets out the information that, but for this subsection, subsections (1) and (1A) would require to be set out in a report by the chief officer of an eligible authority of that State, the chief officer need not give to the Minister the last‑mentioned report.