Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Act 2023
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Annual business plan | ||
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32. (1) The chief executive shall, having consulted with the Board, before the expiry of the specified period in any year, prepare and submit to the Minister a business plan (in this Act referred to as the “annual business plan”) for the following year. | ||
(2) An annual business plan shall— | ||
(a) be prepared in such form and manner and contain such information as may be in accordance with any directions issued by the Minister, | ||
(b) outline the proposed activities of the Agency for the period to which the annual business plan relates and the performance targets relating to those activities, | ||
(c) be prepared in accordance with the policies and objectives of the Minister and the Government in so far as those policies and objectives may affect, or relate to, the functions of the Agency, | ||
(d) be consistent with any corporate plan as laid under section 31 (1) and with any directions given or policy directives issued by the Minister under section 38 , and | ||
(e) contain such other information as may be specified by the Minister. | ||
(3) When preparing an annual business plan, the chief executive shall have regard to such views of the Board as may be provided following consultation under subsection (1). | ||
(4) The chief executive shall implement the annual business plan prepared in accordance with subsection (2) unless the Minister, within 28 days of the submission to him or her of the plan, directs the chief executive in writing to amend the plan if, in the opinion of the Minister, the plan— | ||
(a) does not contain the information required under subsection (2), | ||
(b) does not comply in some other respect with that subsection, or | ||
(c) has been prepared without sufficient regard to any views of the Board provided following consultation under subsection (1). | ||
(5) The Agency shall comply with a direction under subsection (4) within the period, if any, specified in the direction. | ||
(6) Subsections (2) to (5) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, to the preparation of the amended annual business plan as they apply to an annual business plan prepared under subsection (1). | ||
(7) The chief executive shall, in the annual report under section 33 and at such other intervals as the Minister may direct, inform the Minister of the measures taken with regard to the activities and the performance targets outlined in the annual business plan and of the outcome of those measures. | ||
(8) In this section, “specified period”, in relation to a year, means— | ||
(a) the period ending 42 days after the date of publication by the Government of the Estimates for Public Services (within the meaning of section 17 of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 ) for that year, or | ||
(b) such other later period as the Minister may allow. |