Individual responsible for State organisation’s obligations
10 Individual responsible for State organisation’s obligations
The individual responsible for ensuring that a parliamentary department complies with this Act is the individual who under the Financial Management Act 2006 is the accountable authority for that department.
Where a government organisation is not an individual, the individual responsible for ensuring that a government organisation complies with this Act is the individual who, under the FOI Act, is the principal officer of the organisation.
If under the FOI Act a government organisation that is not an individual does not have a principal officer, the individual responsible for ensuring that the organisation complies with this Act is the individual who holds the office or class of office prescribed by the regulations to be the office responsible in respect of that organisation.
The chief executive officer of the department principally assisting the Premier is responsible for ensuring that the government organisations described in items 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 1 comply with this Act.
[Section 10 amended: No. 77 of 2006 s. 6 and Sch. 1 cl. 159(2).]
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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