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AUDIT ACT 1994 - SECT 65

Reports not to include certain findings

    (1)     The Auditor-General must not include in a report under this Act or any other Act—

        (a)     any information that the Auditor-General considers would prejudice any criminal proceeding or criminal investigation, or any investigations by the IBAC or the Victorian Inspectorate; or

        (b)     a finding or an opinion that a specified person is guilty of or has committed, is committing or is about to commit an offence; or

        (c)     a recommendation that a specified person be, or an opinion that a specified person should be, prosecuted for an offence.

    (2)     If the Auditor-General intends to include
in a report under this Act or any other Act a comment or an opinion that is adverse to any person who is to be named in the report and who is an officer or employee of a public body, associated entity or other entity, the public body, associated entity or other entity, after receiving a copy of the proposed report or the relevant part of the proposed report, must give the person a reasonable opportunity to respond to the public body, associated entity or other entity in relation to the adverse material.

Pt 9 (Heading and ss 6672) inserted by No. 12/2019 s. 9.

Part 9—Notifications and information sharing

S. 66 inserted by No. 12/2019 s. 9.



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