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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT 1996 - SECT 69

Responsibility for territory authority statements of performance

    (1)     A statement of performance of a territory authority for a financial year must have endorsed on it, or attached to it, a statement of responsibility signed by the relevant person for the authority.

    (2)     The statement of responsibility must—

        (a)     include a statement of the relevant person's responsibility for the preparation of the statement of performance and the judgments exercised in preparing them; and

        (b)     state that, in the relevant person's opinion, the statement of performance fairly reflects the performance of the authority during the financial year.

    (3)     In this section:

"relevant person", for the territory authority, means—

        (a)     if the authority has a governing board—the chair of the governing board; or

        (b)     if the authority does not have a governing board—the chief executive officer.



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