Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 6)

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Dated 9 December 1998.

WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John Fahey

Minister for Finance and Administration

Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 6)¹

Statutory Rules 1998    No. 333²

made under the

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                        1     Name of regulations                                                       

                        2     Commencement                                                             

                        3     Amendment of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 

Schedule 1       Amendments of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997                                                                                       

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1           Name of regulations

                     These regulations are the Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 6)

2           Commencement

                     These regulations commence on gazettal.

3           Amendment of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997

                     Schedule 1 amends the Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997.

Schedule 1        Amendments of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997

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[1]         After regulation 22

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Part 7A          Reporting and audit

22A  Preparation of annual financial statements by Finance Minister (Act, s 55)

         (1)   For subsection 55 (1) of the Act, the Finance Minister must prepare annual financial statements in relation to the Commonwealth that include the following:

                (a)    an operating statement;

               (b)    a statement of financial position;

                (c)    a statement of cash flows;

               (d)    notes to the financial statements.

         (2)   The annual financial statements mentioned in subregulation (1) must give a true and fair view of:

                (a)    the Commonwealth’s financial position at the end of the financial year for which the statements are prepared; and

               (b)    the results of the Commonwealth’s operations and cash flows for that financial year.

         (3)   If the annual financial statements would not otherwise give a true and fair view of the matters mentioned in subregulation (2), the Finance Minister must add to the financial statements such information and explanations as will give a true and fair view of those matters.

         (4)   The Finance Minister must state in the annual financial statements whether, in the Finance Minister’s opinion, the financial statements give a true and fair view of the matters mentioned in subregulation (2).

22B  Audit of Finance Minister’s annual financial statements (Act, s 56)

         (1)   For subsection 56 (1) of the Act, the Auditor‑General must state in each audit report whether, in the Auditor‑General’s opinion, the financial statements mentioned in subregulation 22A (1):

                (a)    have been prepared in accordance with regulation 22A; and

               (b)    give a true and fair view of the matters mentioned in subregulation 22A (2).

         (2)   If the Auditor-General is not of that opinion, the Auditor‑General must state the reasons.

1.       These regulations amend Statutory Rules 1997 No. 328, as amended by 1998 Nos. 65, 112, 122, 261 and 289.

2.       Made by the Governor-General on 9 December 1998, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 December 1998.  Administered by the Minister of Finance and Administration.