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Fisheries Act 1996

Performance of services by approved organisations - Information disclosure requirements

296ZA: Regulations relating to information disclosure

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"Rules about sharing information with the public"

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The Governor-General can make rules about what information must be shared with the public. You need to know that these rules can require organisations to share financial information, like profit and loss statements. They can also require organisations to share information about how they perform their duties and what they charge for their services. The rules can say how this information must be shared and when it must be made public. They can also say who is exempt from sharing this information and how exemptions can be revoked. You can find more information about what these rules are and how they are published in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. If the rules say some people do not have to share information, the decision to exempt them is also a rule that must be published. The rules must also say if someone is exempt from sharing information or if their exemption is being revoked. You can learn more about this in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 15APerformance of services by approved organisations
Information disclosure requirements

296ZARegulations relating to information disclosure

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. requiring approved service delivery organisations to make publicly available prescribed financial statements that follow generally accepted accounting principles, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and statements of accounting principles:
    1. requiring approved service delivery organisations to publish, in the prescribed manner, information in relation to the performance and exercise of specified functions, duties, and powers, and prescribing the information that the organisations must make available, which information must include—
      1. prices, terms, and conditions; and
        1. pricing policies and methodologies; and
          1. costs; and
            1. cost allocation policies and methodologies; and
              1. performance measures, or information from which performance measures may be derived, or both:
              2. prescribing the form and manner in which the financial statements required by any regulations made under paragraph (a) must be made available:
                1. prescribing the form of statutory declaration, and the persons by whom a statutory declaration must be made, for the purposes of section 296ZB(3):
                  1. prescribing the time limits within which the information disclosure required by any regulations made under this section must be made to the public:
                    1. exempting or providing for the exemption of any person or class of persons from all or any of the requirements of any regulations made under this section:
                      1. providing for the revocation of an exemption of any person or class of persons from all or any of the requirements of any regulations made under this section.

                        1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                        2. If the regulations provide for the exemption of any class of persons under subsection (1)(f), or for the revocation of an exemption of any class of persons under subsection (1)(g),—

                        3. the instrument granting or revoking the exemption is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); and
                          1. the regulations must contain a statement to that effect.

                            Notes
                            • Section 296ZA: inserted, on , by section 65 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).
                            • Section 296ZA(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                            • Section 296ZA(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).