Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT ACT 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   2A.     Meaning of procurement  
   3.      Meaning of Territory entity  
   3A.     Application of Act to land sales etc  
   3B.     Responsible chief executive officer to ensure Act complied with  
   4.      Notes  
   4A.     Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT BOARD

           Division 2.1--Establishment and functions

   5.      Government Procurement Board  
   6.      Functions of board  
   8.      Ministerial directions to board  
   9.      Reports to Minister  
   10.     Providing information to Minister  

           Division 2.2--Members of board

   11.     Constitution of board  
   12.     Appointment of members  
   13.     Term of appointment of members  
   14.     Honesty, care and diligence of members  
   15.     Abuse of position  
   16.     Ending of appointment of members  
   17.     Conditions of appointment generally  

           Division 2.3--Proceedings of board

   18.     Time and place of meetings  
   19.     Procedure governing proceedings of board  
   19A.    Board quorum  
   20.     Disclosure of interests by members  

           Division 2.4--Staff

   21.     Arrangements for staff  

           Division 2.5--Other matters

   22.     Power to obtain information and documents  

   PART 2A--PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES

   22A.    Procurement principle—value for money  
   22B.    Minister may declare procurement matters to be reviewed  
   22C.    Procurement proposal or activity may be referred to board  

   PART 3--NOTIFIABLE CONTRACTS

           Division 3.1--Preliminary

   23.     Application—pt 3  
   24.     Definitions for pt 3  
   25.     What is a notifiable contract?  
   26.     Meaning of notifiable amendment  

           Division 3.2--Notifiable contracts register

   27.     Keeping of register  
   28.     Contents of register  
   29.     Public access to material on register  
   30.     Territory entities to provide material for register  

           Division 3.3--Availability of notifiable contracts

   31.     Public text of contracts to be made available  
   32.     Making information and contracts available apart from pt 3  
   33.     Entities not required to create electronic copies  

           Division 3.4--Confidential text

   34.     Notice of effect of div 3.4 to contracting parties  
   35.     Grounds for confidentiality of information  
   36.     Model confidentiality clause required for confidential text  
   37.     Invalidity of non-complying confidentiality clauses  
   38.     Contracts and information to be given to auditor-general  
   39.     Responsible territory entity's reporting obligations for contracts  
   39A.    Auditor-general's reporting obligations for contracts etc  

           Division 3.5--Other matters

   40.     Effect of disclosure of confidential information  
   41.     Effect of other disclosure laws  
   42.     No liability for complying with pt 3  

   PART 4--INTEREST ON COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS

   43.     Application—pt 4  
   44.     Definitions for pt 4  
   45.     Interest on unpaid accounts  
   46.     Exclusion of inconsistent contractual terms  
   47.     Availability of funds to pay interest  
   48.     Reporting of excluded contracts  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   51.     Approved forms  
   52.     Regulation-making power  
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