Local Government Regulation 2012

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

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

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

an annual operations report for each commercial business unit;

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

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

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

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

a list of the registers kept by the local government;

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

the report on the internal audit for the financial year;

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

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

In this section—

information that allows an informed assessment of the unit’s operations;

particulars of any directions the local government gave the unit.