Public Governance, Performance and
Accountability Amendment Bill 2014
Portfolio:
Finance
Introduced: House of
Representatives, 29 May 2014
1.1
The Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment Bill
2014 seeks to amend the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability
Act 2013 (PGPA Act) to:
- provide certainty over the use and management of public resources
and the capacity of an accountable authority to issue instructions on resource
management and governance matters within entities;
-
include a requirement that Commonwealth entities must provide
annual reports to their Minister by the 15th day of the fourth month after the
end of the reporting period;
-
clarify the nature of various legislative instruments, including
the introduction of a new Part to the PGPA Act (Part 4-1A) to deal with other
instruments that are not subject to disallowance, but are subject to
appropriate scrutiny as they relate to procurement and grant activities and
arrangements covering intelligence or security agencies and listed law
enforcement agencies; and
-
make technical amendments to clarify the operation of the PGPA
Act.
1.2
The bill is accompanied by a statement of compatibility which states
that the bill is 'compatible with the human rights and freedoms recognised or
declared in the international instruments listed in subsection 3(1) of the Human
Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011.'[1]
1.3
The committee considers that the bill does not appear to give
rise to human rights concerns.
1.4
However, the committee notes that the statement of compatibility
does not fully meet the committee's expectations as it does not include
sufficient information about the purpose and effect of the proposed bill. The
committee therefore draws to the attention of the Minister for Finance the
committee's usual expectations in relation to the content of statements of
compatibility, as outlined in the committee's Practice Note 1 (see
Appendix 3).
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