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exercising those powers.
"(6) The Board may, by notice in writing to the Secretary of a Department, require the Secretary to give the Board, within the time specified in the notice, a report in writing in relation to the development, implementation or review of the equal employment opportunity program for the Department.
"(7) A notice under sub-section (6) may specify the particular aspects of the equal employment opportunity program for the Department that are to be dealt with in the report.
"(8) Where the Board receives a statement under sub-section (3) or (4) or a report under sub-section (6), the Board, after considering the statement or report, may make recommendations to the relevant Secretary on the action that should or could be taken to improve the effectiveness of the equal employment opportunity program for the Department.
"(9) If the Secretary does not concur in or adopt a recommendation made by the Board under sub-section (8) on the action that should be taken to improve the effectiveness of the equal employment opportunity program for the Department, the Secretary shall, within a reasonable time, inform the Minister administering the Department, in writing, of his reasons for not concurring in or adopting the recommendation and give a copy of a statement of those reasons to the Board.
"(10) The Board may from time to time, by notice in writing to Secretaries, issue guidelines on the provisions to be made by, and the development, implementation and review of, equal employment opportunity programs for Departments.
"(11) The Board shall, in a report furnished to the Prime Minister in accordance with section 22, report on the operation of this section.
"(12) Where a Department comes into existence after the commencement of this section, this section applies in relation to the Department as if a reference in sub-section (3) to the commencement of this section were a reference to the day on which the Department comes into existence.
"(13) The regulations may provide that this section shall apply to and in relation to a Commonwealth authority and, where the regulations so provide, this section applies to and in relation to the Commonwealth authority as if—
     (a) the Commonwealth authority were a Department;
     (b) references to the Secretary of a Department were references to the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, the office specified in the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph;
     (c) a reference in sub-section (3) to the commencement of this section were a reference to the day on which the regulations came into force; and
     (d) if the regulations provide that a specified Minister is the prescribed authority for the purposes of the application of this section in relation