Audit of accounts of Auditor-General's Office, Office of the Integrity and Ethics Commissioner, other Agency, Territory controlled entity or other organisation
27 Audit of accounts of Auditor-General's Office, Office of the Integrity and Ethics Commissioner, other Agency, Territory controlled entity or other organisation
The Administrator may, from time to time, appoint an auditor, who is registered under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth):
to audit the accounts of the Auditor-General's Office; or
to audit the accounts of the Office of the Integrity and Ethics
Commissioner; or
to audit the accounts of an Agency, Territory controlled entity or other organisation in respect of which the Auditor-General has declared he or she has a conflict of interest.
Every audit under subsection (1) must be performed not less than once in a year.
An auditor appointed under subsection (1), in conducting an audit and preparing a report under this section, has the same powers and is subject to the same requirements as the Auditor-General when conducting an audit and preparing a report under this Act.
Subject to subsection (5), on completing an audit under this section, the auditor must give a report of the audit to the Minister and the Auditor-General.
Where an auditor is appointed under subsection (1) to audit the accounts of the Auditor-General's Office, section 24 applies to a report under subsection (4) as if the auditor were the
Auditor-General and the Auditor-General's Office were the Agency to which the report relates.
The Minister must table a copy of a report referred to in subsection (4) in the Legislative Assembly within 6 sitting days of the Assembly after it is received by the Minister.
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