Reports prepared by the Monitor
142 Reports prepared by the Monitor
The Monitor must prepare a report on the operations of the Monitor in respect of each financial year as soon as practicable after the end of that financial year.
The Monitor may prepare a report on the operations of the Monitor at any other time.
The Monitor must ensure that a report under subsection (1) or (2) does not include information that is likely to identify a person unless the information is publicly available or the person has consented to the inclusion of the information in the report.
The Monitor must cause a report under subsection (1) or (2) to be laid before each House of the Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable after the report is prepared.
The Monitor must give a copy of each report prepared under subsection (1) or (2) to the Minister at least 28 days before the report is laid before a House of the Parliament under subsection (4).
The publication under this section of a report is absolutely privileged and the provisions of sections 73 and 74 of the Constitution Act 1975, and of any other Act or rule of law relating to the publication of the proceedings of the Parliament, apply to and in relation to the publication of that report as if—
it were a report to which those sections applied; and
it had been published by the Government Printer under the authority of the Parliament.
S. 143 inserted by No. 20/2019 s. 85.
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