(1) As soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, a department must—
(a) prepare a report on the operations of the department for that financial year; and
(b) provide the report to its responsible Minister.
(2) Subsection (1) does not derogate from any provision in any other Act that requires the chief executive of a department to present an annual report, but it is not necessary for the chief executive to provide a separate report under each enactment.
Section 43: substituted, on 25 January 2005, by section 16 of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).