Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00109:section:8:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00109
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 10399–13202

1997, on draft estimates referred to in paragraph (j); and
 (m) to determine the audit priorities of the Parliament and to advise the Auditor‑General of those priorities; and
 (n) to determine the audit priorities of the Parliament for audits of the Audit Office and to advise the Independent Auditor of those priorities; and
 (o) any other duties given to the Committee by this Act, by any other law or by Joint Standing Orders approved by both Houses of the Parliament.
 (1A) Nothing in subsection (1) authorises the Committee to direct the activities of the Auditor‑General or the Independent Auditor.
 (2) The duties of the Committee do not extend to:
 (a) an examination of the financial affairs of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory or of the Administration of an External Territory (including the financial affairs of the Administration of an External Territory contained in any of the accounts and financial statements referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1)); or
 (b) an examination of a report of the Auditor‑General that relates to, or in so far as it relates to:
 (i) the financial affairs of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory or of the Administration of an External Territory (including the financial affairs of the Administration of an External Territory contained in any of the accounts and financial statements referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1)); or
 (ii) the results of an efficiency audit of operations of the Administration of an External Territory.
 (2A) For the purposes of subsection (2), an External Territory does not include the Territory of Christmas Island or the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
 (3) For the purpose of this section, an authority of the Commonwealth to which this Act applies is:
 (a) a body corporate or an unincorporated body established for a public purpose by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment, not being an inter‑governmental body;
 (b) a body established by the Governor‑General or by a Minister otherwise than in accordance with an enactment; or
 (c) an incorporated company over which the Commonwealth is in a position to exercise control.
 (4) Where the parties to an agreement relating to the establishment of an inter‑governmental body consent to the examination, by the Committee, of the financial affairs of that body, the Minister shall notify the fact that they have so consented in the Gazette and the body shall thereupon become an inter‑governmental body to which this Act applies.
 (5) Where a party to an agreement relating to the establishment of an inter‑governmental body (being an inter‑governmental body which, by virtue of subsection (4), is an inter‑governmental body to which this Act applies) withdraws its consent to the examination,