This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (2023 Measures No. 2) Rules 2023.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	24 May 2023
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the day on which the High Speed Rail Authority Act 2022 commences.	12 June 2023 (paragraph (b) applies)
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	The day after this instrument is registered.	24 May 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments relating to the High Speed Rail Authority

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1 At the end of Part 1‑2

Add:

7AC Reporting period—High Speed Rail Authority

Guide to this section

The purpose of this section is to prescribe the first reporting period for the High Speed Rail Authority.

This section is made for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of reporting period in section 8 of the Act.

The first reporting period for the High Speed Rail Authority is the period that:

(a) begins on 13 June 2023; and

(b) ends on 30 June 2024.

2 Clause 13 of Schedule 1

Repeal the clause.

Part 2—Repeals of spent provisions

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

3 Sections 7AA and 7AB

Repeal the sections.